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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Official mapping?
Start with the grammatical controller.
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Standard English Conventions → Form, Structure, and Sense.
Reading & WritingChapter 10: Form, Structure, and Sense
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Sequence of Tenses Flashcards
Twenty concise Form, Structure, and Sense cards for Topic 10-6.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Internal-topic status?
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Sequence of Tenses is an instructional subdivision supporting verb tense aspect; it is not a separately claimed official skill.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Core rule?
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Different verbs use the tenses and aspects required by their actual temporal relationships.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Grammar map?
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EARLIER EVENT → REFERENCE EVENT → NOW
Example
EARLIER EVENT → REFERENCE EVENT → NOW
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: First move?
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Place every event on a timeline; do not force all verbs into one tense.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Form check?
Start with the grammatical controller.
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Identify the number, tense, case, noun form, or verb form required by the blank.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Structure check?
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Confirm that the completed clause has the required finite predicate, complement, coordination, and attachment.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Sense check?
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Confirm that actor, time, reference, ownership, and comparison relationships remain logical.
Example
EARLIER EVENT → REFERENCE EVENT → NOW
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Controller check?
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For Sequence of Tenses, name the element that controls the target before viewing the options.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Common trap?
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Treating tense consistency as identical tense everywhere.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Full substitution?
Start with the grammatical controller.
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Insert every complete choice into the full text; never judge only the isolated blank.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: One-best-answer test?
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Exactly one offered form must satisfy grammar, usage, and contextual sense.
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EARLIER EVENT → REFERENCE EVENT → NOW
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Finite-verb reminder?
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A participle, gerund, or infinitive cannot automatically replace the finite verb a clause requires.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Agreement reminder?
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Use the actual grammatical subject or antecedent, not whichever noun happens to be nearest.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Timeline reminder?
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Different verbs may correctly use different tenses when their events occur at different times.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Modifier reminder?
Start with the grammatical controller.
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The noun attached to a modifier must be the entity the modifier can logically describe.
Example
EARLIER EVENT → REFERENCE EVENT → NOW
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Noun-form reminder?
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Distinguish number, ownership, and contraction before selecting an apostrophe form.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Boundaries distinction?
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If answer options chiefly vary punctuation marks, the item belongs to Boundaries rather than this chapter.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: No prescriptive myths?
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Do not solve by myths such as never splitting an infinitive or never ending with a preposition; use current contextual conventions.
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10-6 Sequence of Tenses: Final self-check?
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Apply EARLIER EVENT → REFERENCE EVENT → NOW, substitute all choices, and state why each distractor fails.
Example
EARLIER EVENT → REFERENCE EVENT → NOW
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