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The animals <em><u>scrambled </u></em>to get into the barn as the lightning <em><u>struck</u></em>.
In the chosen sentence, both verbs in the different clauses are consistent ad accurate because they are written in the Past Simple tense.
The rest of the options are incorrect because the tense of the verbs is not related to each other: they wrongly combine past and present, and present and future tenses.
The right version of them are the following:
<em>Alexander </em><em>finished </em><em>his math test and </em><em>walked </em><em>to Mr. Smith's desk.
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Sampson and Raina </em><em>watch </em><em>the fireworks and </em><em>comment </em><em>on how beautiful they are.
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The police officer </em><em>rounded </em><em>the corner and pumped his arms harder.</em>
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "TRUE." <span>One of the benefits of studying communication is that it helps people become effective leaders. The statement is true because communication is really needed when you want to imply or to share something to your constituents.</span>
The correct answer is:
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[A]: "a gerund phrase as the object of a preposition" .
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Note: This phrase is: "in serving others" .
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The gerund is: "serving" .
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The preposition is: "in" .
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Answer:
Rosaleen befriends May, who's very simpleminded. She spends much of her time catching spiders and eating bananas. June teaches English in a local black high school. One night, Lily overhears June and August talking about her: June says she knows Lily is lying about her dead parents.
