SAT Writing and Language Drill 2.6 Sentence Structure

to get anywhere Washington took his oath in view of

thousands Okay so took what do you think about took

Seems like a weird phrase and it's a weird word

so washington doesn't take his oath until later in the

essay right We've got a timing thing took is in

the past tense so that not sound strange that there's

no time machine in seventeen ninety whatever this is yeah

So even though the story is in the past tense

taking the o still hasn't happened yet So the best

choice here is the conditional would or would take which

we can use here to refer to a future event

from the perspective of the past like it hasn't happened

yet There's not one in a million ons he never

takes the oath so he would take it if he

could take it right We'll using the past tense like

took in this paragraph jumps the action too far ahead

in the story Yes no time travel the construction would

have taken suggest something that could have happened in the

past but didn't and that doesn't work here because we

know that the oath taking did indeed happen All right

The next choice to be had taken all right and

that suggests that the oath taking happened before we began

telling the story which is impossible without you know presidential

teleportation So no time machines back then And sadly no

time machines today because we'd love to see how dinosaurs

were different issue Okay moving on that's it it z

there would take by