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TSI Writing: Past Perfect vs. Simple Past Tense 2 Views

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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.

Older drivers recall the decades when gasoline cost thirty cents a gallon and price wars among competing service stations sometimes have sent the cost of a gallon plummeting into the teens.

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All right see Writing shmoop er's Next up here we
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go Older drivers recalled the decades when gasoline costs thirty
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cents a gallon and price wars among competing service station
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sometimes have sent the cost of a gallon plummeting into
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the teens A terrible sentence and old sentence When was

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the last time callen gas was like that Well this
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question reminds us of the good old days when gas
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station attendants would actually wash your windshield and fill up
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the tank of a gas guzzling you know fifty seven
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chevy and god gallons per mile back then miles for
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noon Speaking of the past well this sentence needs to
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be placed correctly in the past tense with the verb
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sent See right there have sent it should just be
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it sent the cost of a gallon plummeting basically that's
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The sense the whole thing up there is just a
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big fat idiot The past perfect tense have sent in
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a shift from the past tense for recall and cost
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Meanwhile the conditional may have sent yeah with in their
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uses the incorrect mood and sends places the verb in
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the president so that's it answers they were shmoop phil 00:01:11.66 --> [endTime] Around may people
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