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Thank you We sneak then here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by verb tenses The verbal relaxes were

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too lazy to bring any among you birds Get up

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get up I've grown up two brothers We've read it

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giving it now skim and broke his ankle me one

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time Green all right what's the correct way to write

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sentence five and here the potential answers a lot of

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unfortunately here Well looks like sentence five having problems with

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its verb tenses right there Unfortunately for jimmy his challenge

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had not gone so well because he broke his ankle

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Yeah while the verbal broke is in the simple past

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while the helping verb had puts had not gone in

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the past perfect it's hardly ever a good idea to

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mix tenses in a sentence doing this Always test the

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patience of the grammar police and you know how that

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goes All right option b isn't going to do anything

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to calm down the grammar cops either It's actually just

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going to make them angrier since it's the same as

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the original only with a comma removed that wasn't used

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incorrectly in the first place We have to have to

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come after Unfortunately for jimmy because it's an introductory phrase

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things go from bad to worse with choi see right

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there Yeah we've got the same tense issues as before

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so that stinks And on top of that phrase unfortunately

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for jimmy has been replaced with the grammatically awkward and

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too bad for jimmy well answer D makes an attempt

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to fix john's verb tense issues but the grammar cops

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don't give a cz for the effort Don't expect little

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smiley face stickers just trying hard The change is broke

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too broken in an attempt to put all the verbs

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in the sentence into past perfect but we need a

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helping verb like had to go along with broken otherwise

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The grammar police will blow a gasket Answer it Finally

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fixes are verb tense problems Here we go Both did

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not go and broke our in the simple past It's

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like there was no room in this sense for past

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perfect heavy sigh way were perfect in the past But 00:02:01.063 --> [endTime] let ourselves go lately

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