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    This document provides a summary of tense agreement. It explains that verbs have different tenses to indicate when actions occur in the past, present or future. For clear communication, sentences should maintain tense agreement so the order and timing of events is understood. Punctuation and connectors can help organize ideas across sentences using different tenses. The goal is clear communication through consistent verb tense usage.

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    WEEK

    ONE

    16
    Academic Skills
    Tense Agreement
    What Is Tense When we speak or write, we mix different

    Agreement?
    tenses. Tenses in verbs indicate the time
    when things happen: past, present, or
    future. Tense agreement means that
    other people can understand the order
    of the actions we are describing: What
    01 Read these sentences with a classmate and discuss if you can happened first? What happened next?
    understand them. Why? Why not? What is wrong? What is happening now? What will
    happen soon or later?

    Suzanne and We must decide if we can use more


    Timothy will than one tense in the same sentence.
    When I was a child, travel. They Otherwise, we can organize our ideas
    I enjoy climbing trees visited Greece! in separate ones. Punctuation marks
    with my cousins. are useful for this. We can also use
    connectors to divide sentences, for
    example and, but, or because. The goal
    Jordan wanted to be an is that our communication is clear.
    airplane pilot, but he’s Who stole the bracelet that
    afraid of heights. your aunt will give you?

    02 Read “Tense Agreement” and complete the sentences with the


    missing words. Then, rewrite in your notebook the sentences in
    Exercise 1 with the right verb tense agreement.

    1. When we speak or write, we mix different             .

    2.                   means that other people can

    understand the                  in our ideas.

    3.                       are useful for this.

    4. The goal is that our                  is clear.

    03 Complete the organizer with the information from atu


    red Ap
    p

    the text “Tense Agreement.”

    Fe

    s
    04 Use the following verbs in different tenses to
    create text messages and write them in your notebook.
    Share them with a classmate and check the tense
    Meaning agreement.
    and goal

    drink laugh

    How to
    do it read study

    walk write
    Use

    17

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