Use past-tense and present-tense verbs consistently within a piece
Exercise
Difficulty 4
~3 min
eng.g1.s.ex_37
Fix Tense Break
Prompt
Find and fix the tense break: 'Yesterday I went to the store and I buy milk and I come home.'
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
exact string
value
Yesterday I went to the store and I bought milk and I came home.
allow variant
- Yesterday I went to the store, bought milk, and came home.
Hints
- Yesterday = past. ALL verbs should be past.
- buy → bought. come → came.
Misconceptions to watch
- Only fixes one verb
- buys/buyed instead of bought
Used in lessons