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Description:
Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
Every time I go to the Grand Canyon,
I wished
I brought more sunscreen.
Transcript
- 00:03
R c writing shmoop er's and other sentence for you
- 00:05
here we go Just dive in every time i go
- 00:08
to the grand canyon i wished i brought more sunscreen
- 00:12
every time i go i wished yeah not so good
- 00:17
as grand as we hear the kenyon is it cannot
Full Transcript
- 00:19
be much fun without enough sunscreen or without correct parallel
- 00:23
sentence structure For that matter the verbs and the two
- 00:25
clauses need to match intense because they're taking place in
- 00:29
the same time period If the first clause takes place
- 00:32
in the present tense while the second clause needs to
- 00:35
match so it should be b i wish i brought
- 00:38
more sunscreen every time i go to the grand canyon
- 00:40
i wish i brought more sunscreen like a gallon of
- 00:42
it Of that you could bathe in it Yeah so
- 00:45
that's it all right Loser bowl while putting the second
- 00:47
clause in the past tense you have passed in perfect
- 00:50
or ask perfect will cause verbal miss mass that's illegal
- 00:53
in texas and california that's almost his big a fail
- 00:56
is coming back from vacation with second degree sunburn So
- 00:59
that's it the answer is b i wish i smoked
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