Verb Tense Errors in Sentences

Choose the sentence that has correct use of verb tense.

• Eddie explained, "If I had finished my homework, then I have had time to play basketball now," and then he added, "but I make a poor choice."

• Eddie explained, "If I had finished my homework, then I would have had time to play basketball now," and then he added, "but I made a poor choice."

• Eddie explained, "If I had finished my homework, then I will have time to play basketball now," and then he added, "but I made a poor choice."

• Eddie explained, "If I had finished my homework, then I have had time to play basketball now," and then he added, "but I was making a poor choice."

A student wrote sentences about her family. One sentence has a verb tense error. Click on the sentence that has an incorrect shift in verb tense.

• During the school year, everyone in our family is busy.

• Carol has soccer practice, and Mike has softball practice.

• I am in junior band, and we practice twice a week.

• Everyone gets home at a different time, and we're all hungry.

• However, we never have dinner before mom got home from work.

Edit the sentences by clicking on the two sentences that use the incorrect verb tenses.

• Today is Tuesday, and it is warm and sunny.

• Our family wants to go on a trip this weekend.

• If the weather remained nice, we will go to the beach.

• The newspaper says it will rain on Saturday, however. We will go to a movie if it does rain.

• Mom says we deciding our plan on Friday.

The sentence below contains one error in grammar usage. Read the sentence and the question that follows.

The beach is packed with people who has come to watch the surfing competition.

Which version of the sentence has been correctly edited for grammar usage?

• The beach is packed with people who has comes to watch the surfing competition.

• The beach is packed with people who has came to watch the surfing competition.

• The beach is packed with people who have come to watch the surfing competition.

• The beach is packed with people who have comes to watch the surfing competition.

Select "Correct" if the verb tense is correct; correct the verb tense if it is incorrect.
When we arrived at the restaurant, I runned ahead of everyone to tell the hostess we needed five seats.

• ran

• Correct

Devin give me a menu from the new downtown restaurant.

• Correct

• gave

Select "Correct" if the verb tense is correct; correct the verb tense if it is incorrect.
We had almost reached the restaurant when Jose hit a curb.

• Correct

• reach

Which correctly identifies the tense of the highlighted word? We will spend a lot of time at the park today.

• past

• present

• future

5. My dog and I (look, looks) for a piece of bread on the table.

• look

• looks

He ____________his family next weekend.

• see

• will see

• saw

• seen