Question

Read this excerpt. Note the verb tense in the sentence “When I look into the small rectangle, I see a face looking back at me but I don’t recognize it.”
There is a mirror over the steel sink in my cell. It's six inches high, and scratched with the names of some guys who were here before me. When I look into the small rectangle, I see a face looking back at me but I don't recognize it. It doesn't look like me. I couldn't have changed that much in a few months.

—Monster, Walter Dean Myers

Which choice shows the same sentence properly written in past tense?

When I look into the small rectangle, I saw a face looking back at me but I don’t recognize it.
When I looked into the small rectangle, I see a face looked back at me but I didn’t recognize it.
When I looked into the small rectangle, I saw a face looking back at me but I didn’t recognize it.
When I look into the small rectangle, I saw a face looked back at me but I didn’t recognize it.

Answer 1

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3!

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Answer 2

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When I looked into the small rectangle, I saw a face looking back at me but I didn’t recognize it.

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