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Marrrta [24]
3 years ago
9

Most of the text below should have been written in the past tense. Read it carefully and then correct the 3 verbs that are in th

e wrong tense.
We located the object on radar and then we moved to the telescope. I take a bearing and Andy swivel the barrel around. Putting his eye to the eyepiece, he saw a glowing, yellow-red orb floating in mid-air. It hovered for about 30 seconds before it shoot off upwards at high speed. We couldn't believe our eyes!
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1 answer:
Hunter-Best [27]3 years ago
8 0

The changing of the verb in the past tense is given below:

We located the object on radar, and then we moved to the telescope. I <u>took</u> a bearing and Andy <u>swiveled </u>the barrel around. Putting his eye to the eyepiece, he saw a glowing, yellow-red orb floating in midair. It hovered for about 30 seconds before it <u>shot </u>off upwards at high speed. We couldn't believe our eyes!

<h3>What is past tense?</h3>

Past tense is when all things happened in past is shown in a sentence. The past tense use past tense verbs, which are was, were, had, had been.

Thus, the correct words are took, swiveled, and shot.

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