Grade 5 · Reading & language

Keep a past-tense account consistent

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On Monday, the team measured the shelf and ___ a plan. Choose the consistent past tense.

  1. drew
  2. drawing
  3. will draw
  4. draws
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drew

Drew is the past tense of draw and agrees with the completed time frame.

A little hint: Keep verbs in the past when they describe the same completed time; change tense only when time or meaning changes.

Keep verbs in the past when they describe the same completed time; change tense only when time or meaning changes.

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