Exercise 1: Deliberate Practice with Verbs (answers p.

1. An effective way to create a focused and diligent group of workers are to have cubicles that
are partitioned and evenly spaced out.

A. NO CHANGE
B. were
C. is
D. being

2. Shooting wildlife photos requires a lot of patience, repetition, and precise timing; not
everyone possess this ability.

A. NO CHANGE
B. are possessing
C. have possessed
D. possesses

3. Guinness, one of the world’s most popular beers, is not an ideal liquid to cook with and
should not be used on most proteins.

A. NO CHANGE
B. being
C. are
D. were

4. Several newly discovered species of lizards found in a remote part of South Africa includes
the orange and girdled lizard.

A. NO CHANGE
B. include
C. including
D. has included

5. Deep in the most remote parts of the Amazon river lives the Brazilian Guajajara Tribe known
as the “Guardians of the Forest” and the Yuri Tribe, which has been referred to as “the
uncontacted Indians.”

A. NO CHANGE
B. living
C. has lived
D. live
6. The Acai berry, a superfood native to Central and South America, had began to gain
popularity after celebrities like Oprah had uploaded pictures of the fruit on their Instagram
pages.

A. NO CHANGE
B. have begun
C. begun
D. began

7. Spencer, who was a three-sport athlete and five-star basketball recruit, become the most
popular student at school, earning him the nickname “Big Man on Campus.”

A. NO CHANGE
B. has became
C. had become
D. becoming

8. If Jennifer had not lost her voice the night before, she would of sang in the audition and
impressed the judges.

A. NO CHANGE
B. would of sung
C. sung
D. would have sung

9. Not many people know this fact, but mangoes grown in Florida taste more tart than those
cultivated in South America.

A. NO CHANGE
B. had grown
C. had grew
D. grew

10. Had it not been for the piece of hair he left at the crime scene, the criminal might of gotten
away with robbery.

A. NO CHANGE
B. might of got
C. gotten
D. might have gotten
11. Left behind is a crater that is hidden under layers of earth – and recently grown vegetation –
and have conceal geological clues like shocked quartz and tektites.
A. NO CHANGE
B. were concealing
C. conceals
D. concealed

12. New York, a city with a rich history of sports teams, house two baseball teams, two football
teams, two hockey teams, one basketball team, and now two soccer teams.

A. NO CHANGE
B. were housing
C. have housed
D. houses

13. While scuba diving in the depths of The Blue Hole, one of the most famous dive sites in the
world, Kyle was searching for the anglerfish when he notices a frilled shark inching closer to
him.

A. NO CHANGE
B. anglerfish when he noticed
C. anglerfish when
D. anglerfish when noticed

14. As a child, Kobe Bryant was a huge soccer fan; almost every weekend, he and his friends
would kicked the ball around at the park.

A. NO CHANGE
B. would have kicked
C. kicking
D. would kick

15. Outcomes are a lagging measure of habits; a person who puts in consistent work while
maintaining a positive attitude is often rewarded with outstanding results.

A. NO CHANGE
B. rewarding
C. rewards
D. was rewarded

16. I know Jill wasn’t at the party last weekend, but I wonder if she, whom many students say is
the most unreliable student at school, would show up tonight.

A. NO CHANGE
B. showed
C. will show up
D. has shown up
17. Just before the sound of the bell, which signaled to the runners that they had one lap
remaining, Roger Bannister has find himself one hundred meters ahead of everyone else.

A. NO CHANGE
B. has found
C. had founded
D. had found

18. Johann, at the request of his mother, a former pianist for the Swedish symphony, has took
piano lessons for over ten years, and he still plays and practices daily.

A. NO CHANGE
B. takes
C. has taken
D. had taken

19. Eventually, in 1987, the governments of Amazon nations has secured roughly 20,000 acres of
Amazonian rainforest called the Javari Valley Indigenous Land, which prevented outsiders
from entering in perpetuity.

A. NO CHANGE
B. have secured
C. secured
D. was secured

20. It’s not difficult to imagine that every pixel of the most popular social media sites created by
young, savvy entrepreneurs are considered carefully with the end user in mind.

A. NO CHANGE
B. were considering
C. is considered
D. was considering