Shifts in Tense: Choose the answer that best corrects the sentence’s illogical shift in tense. If the original sentence does not have any mistakes, choose “Correct.” - Langston Hughes remains one of the twentieth century’s best-known poets, a man famous enough to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp.
Shifts in Tense: Choose the answer that best corrects the sentence’s illogical shift in tense. If the original sentence does not have any mistakes, choose “Correct.” - Hughes was born in Missouri and spends his first twelve years in Kansas.
Shifts in Tense: Choose the answer that best corrects the sentence’s illogical shift in tense. If the original sentence does not have any mistakes, choose “Correct.” - Although he was now associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, he did not arrive in New York until 1921.
Shifts in Tense: Choose the answer that best corrects the sentence’s illogical shift in tense. If the original sentence does not have any mistakes, choose “Correct.” - At the time, he is nineteen years old.
Shifts in Tense: Choose the answer that best corrects the sentence’s illogical shift in tense. If the original sentence does not have any mistakes, choose “Correct.” - Hughes quickly makes a name for himself with his poetry, publishing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in a national magazine that same year.
Shifts in Tense: Choose the answer that best corrects the sentence’s illogical shift in tense. If the original sentence does not have any mistakes, choose “Correct.” - Because he wanted only to write, not to teach or to work in an office, Hughes tries nearly every kind of writing.
Shifts in Tense: Choose the answer that best corrects the sentence’s illogical shift in tense. If the original sentence does not have any mistakes, choose “Correct.” - He published short stories, a play, essays, and a novel, and he also wrote newspaper columns and children’s books.
Shifts in Tense: Choose the answer that best corrects the sentence’s illogical shift in tense. If the original sentence does not have any mistakes, choose “Correct.” - During his life, his poetry was popular, and it was still widely read today.
Shifts in Tense: Choose the answer that best corrects the sentence’s illogical shift in tense. If the original sentence does not have any mistakes, choose “Correct.” - A line from “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” adorns the floor of the Langston Hughes Auditorium, which stands in Harlem.
Shifts in Tense: Choose the answer that best corrects the sentence’s illogical shift in tense. If the original sentence does not have any mistakes, choose “Correct.” - Blue stone in the shape of a river decorates the floor of the auditorium, and an urn containing Hughes’s ashes rested underneath the stone.