Task 8

Task 8 : Choose the incorrect one from A,B,C,D

1.       After she had bought himself a new automobile, she sold her bicycle.

     A             B                                     C        D

Incorrect : B. Himself

Analisis :

This sentence is Past Perfect Tense , on the word “Himself” changed to “herself” because subject of this sentence is she.

2.       After George had returned to his house, he was reading a book.

                              A                    B      C            D

Incorrect : D. He was reading

Analisis :

The sentence is past perfect tense. The formula is :  After+S + has / have + V3, S+V2  and there are two actions happened in the past. The word “reading” should be changed to “read”. The correct sentence is he was read a book.

3.       After John eaten dinner, he wrote several letters and went to bed.

                    A                     B              C                         D

Incorrect : A. Eaten

Analisis :

The sentence is past perfect tense, the formula is : After+S+had+V3, S+V2 and there are two actions happened in the past. The word "eaten" must be added with tobe "had". Then the correct sentence is “had eaten”.

4.       The President went fishing after he has finished with the conferences.

  A                             B       C                 D

Incorrect : D. Finished

Analisis :

The sentence is past perfect tense. The formula is :  S+V2 , After+ S + has / have + V3 and there are two actions happened in the past. The word “finished” must be added with tobe “had”. Then the correct sentense is “had finished”.

5.       The governor has not decided how to deal with the new problems already.

  A                  B                                C                                            D

Incorrect : D. Already

Analisis :

This sentence is "present perfect tense", if the sentence has already happened then use the word "already" and if it has not happened using the word "yet". In this sentence the incident has not happened then the word already changed to yet.

6.       The professor had already given the homework assignment when he had remembered that Monday was holiday.                                   A                                            B

    C         D

Incorrect : B. Had remembered

Analisis :

The sentense is past perfect tense, there are two action happened in the past. The sentense “had remembered” should be canged to “remembered”.

7.       John lived in New York since 1960 to 1975, but he is now living in Detroit.

                 A                    B                                                  C   D

Answer : Correct

Analisis        :

The sentence is present perfect tense action and began in the past and use formula “since+biginning of time”. This sentence is correct.

8.       Before she moved here, Arlene had been president of the organization since four years.

     A                                                  B                     C                         D

Incorrect : D. Since

Analisis :

The sentence is present perfect tense action more than once and the use formula : “for+duration of time”. The word “since” should be canged to “for”.  

9.       Our new nighbors had been living in Arizona since ten years before moving to their present

     A                                B                            C                             D

house.

Incorrect : D. Since

Analisis :

The sentence is present perfect tense action more than once and the use formula : “for+duration of time”. The word “since” should be canged to “for”.  

10.   The volume four of our encyclopedia set has been missing for two months.

         A                    B                                        C            D

Incorrect : A. The volume

Analisis :

In the sentence, the use of the word "the volume" should be changed to "a volume" because the use of the word "the" must be a specific object. In this sentence the word volume is not specific then use "a". The correct sentence is "a volume".