EXERCISE 27–11Verb tense and mood
Select the correct verb form in each sentence. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to see your score and item-by-item explanations; your activity will be recorded in your instructor's gradebook.
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Because Mark (picked / had picked) her up the previous evening, she assumed he would appear the next evening as well.
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2 of 10
Ken recommended that Juan (remain / remains) on the beginner slopes for at least a week.
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If it (was / were) only the two of us, we could afford the trip; but we cannot afford airfare for the whole family.
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Before Kate was three years old, she knew that there (are / were) nine planets in the solar system.
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Our neighbor stood at the door looking so pale and ashen that we thought he (just saw / had just seen) a ghost.
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6 of 10
Toni could be an excellent student if she (wasn’t / weren’t) so distracted by problems at home.
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7 of 10
Craig’s own mother asked that the principal (expel / expels) him from school.
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8 of 10
By 8:00 a.m., everyone in the family (left / had left) for work or school.
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9 of 10
In the feminist rewriting of Sleeping Beauty, the girl (is / was) not awakened by a prince.
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10 of 10
I would like (to tour / to have toured) Europe after graduation, but I had to go to work immediately.
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