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©2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers, Form A John Langan Consistent Verb Tense

©2002The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E Consistent Verb Tense Use a Consistent Point of View: Verbs Use a Consistent Point of View: Verbs verb tenses Do not shift verb tenses unnecessarily. dumped Ex.: Jean punched down the risen dough. Then she dumps it onto the worktable.

©2002The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E Consistent Verb Tense If you begin a paper in the present tense, write in the present tense for the whole paper! Ex.: Cars are far too common today. They pollute the environment and waste energy.

©2002The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E Consistent Verb Tense Or, if you are writing in the past, be sure to keep every verb in the past tense. Ex.: Yesterday, I saw a homeless man. He was dirty and tired. I gave him a quarter.