TSI Writing: We Eat Verb Tenses (Not Cake) for Breakfast
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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
Marie de France wrote poems called lays during the Middle Ages. Her work is enjoyed by her audience because of its magic and mystery.
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this morita false lived a long long long time ago
Like during the twelfth century Probably safe to assume then
that the audiences of the time are no longer alive
Unless they're bacca's white walkers Well the verbs in the
first sentence wrote and called are both in the past
which tells us action occurred in the past So everything
has to agree here right It's all got to be
the same tense Her work is singular which makes wass
the only correct answer right If it's singular it's got
to be a singular verb It's plural it's got to
be a player over like he sits or they sit
got it So the answer is b work was enjoyed
and no we can't switch verbs in the second sentence
because the idea expands on The first one is called
for a verb in the past tense So is an
r r out were used the plural form of the
verb of the subject Work in singular not grammatically correct 00:01:16.726 --> [endTime] either So that's it It's big