Verb Tenses: Review

(1) For families with teenagers, school nights may fall into a familiar pattern. (2) Parents urge their kids to go to bed early, but teens would rather stay up late. (3) Maybe they have homework or wanted to spend time with friends.

What change, if any, should be made?

• change urge to urged

• change stay to stayed

• change wanted to want

• make no change

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

(5) But a new study confirms that adolescents need eight to 10 hours of sleep at night to feel their best the next day. (6) As kids reached adolescence, they often face increasing workloads and responsibilities. (7) But they are not yet adults.

(8) Their bodies and brains are still changing.

What change, if any, should be made?

• change confirms to confirming

• change reached to reach

• change increasing to increases

• make no change

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

(9) “Adolescence is sometimes referred to as the ‘perfect storm’ of problems of sleep,” says Pelayo. (10) On the one hand, teens need regular sleep to be mentally and physically healthy. (11) But their internal clocks shift during this period. (12)Their bodies want to stay awake later at night and sleep later in the morning.

What change, if any, should be made?

• change says to said

• change need to needs

• change shift to shifting

• make no change

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

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(13) Biologically, kids’ bodies shift toward a later schedule during the teenage years. (14) “They became more like night owls and less like early risers,” says Fuligni. (15) But despite the change in their internal body clocks, school start times and other schedules don’t change.

What change, if any, should be made?

• change shift to shifting

• change became to become

• change don't to didn't

• make no change

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

(16) But until schools change their start times, teenagers had to help themselves. (17) Pelayo suggests teens sleep for 10 hours each night for a week or two.

(18) This will help them figure out how much sleep they need to feel their best.

What change, if any, should be made?

• change had to have

• change suggests to suggested

• change need to needing

• make no change

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1