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CAHSEE ELA: Writing Conventions Drill 4, Problem 5. How would you correct the sentence, if at all?
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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by the future Perfect Wishful thinking if you ask us
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But that's a tense issue Hortense issue whatever All right
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which answer best fills in the blanks when they get
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home from their trip they will be gone for seventeen
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days I knew a potential answers in the navy The
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problem with this ends is that the verbs disagree No
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amount of mediation is going to help this one We
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need to find some verbs who know how to get
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along So the sentence gets off with a future tense
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verb get so we know that the second part of
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the sentence needs a future tense verb as well Knowing
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this makes it easy to get choices Bnc out of
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our lives goodbye were gone and had been gone are
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both in the past If this were doctor who it
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might make sense to talk about someone from the future
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going back into the past And still he does that
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a lot on family guy but well same ideal more
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modern versions But as far as we know the people
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on this trip aren't lords of time That would be
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cooler if they were option details as to leave the
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original sense alone but it's got the wrong end of
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the stick Yes will be is in the future tense
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like our first verb get but in this sense the
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future isn't so simple We're talking about something that will
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have happened before a certain point in the future when
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these travellers return seventeen days will have already passed To
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get across this idea we need choice A which takes
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us into the future with the helping word will but
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uses have been to bring us back a bit in
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time Whenever we're dealing with this kind of time frame
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we're in a tense called the future perfect I don't
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think we can only talk about the good things to
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come in this tense For example by the time we
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finish this sentence to zombies will have attacked that or 00:01:50.351 --> [endTime] sharpen your machete low cholesterol brains for sale
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