Agreement of Tenses

TASK: Decide whether the following sentences true or wrong.

1. The novel and the short story are the literary forms, most commonly called "fiction," but contemporary narrative poetry
and drama were also forms of fiction.
2. The basic principle of fiber optics has been understood since 1870, but major developments in this field occur primarily since
1951.
3. Without careful budgeting, a family can dissipate a good in come so that there was not money for larger expenditures such as
furnishings or the care of elderly parents.
4. The fuzzy, overstuffed quality of nineteenth-century prose resulting from using ten words where one would have sufficed.
5. Noah Webster's Dictionary is first published in 1828 and has been extremely influential in American language usage
since then.
6. Browsing horses had become very rare by the early Pliocene era and soon become extinct
7. Although navigation of the Hudson Strait in Canada is difficult, it was still used frequently by ships even now.
8. My book is having three torn pages, which I tried to tape before I left home.
9. This area seldom is experiencing rain in summer, when the heat breaks all maintained records.
10. Knowing how long the test would run, the students who finished settle back and opened their books to read while time
passed.
11. The astronauts who were not allowed to join the shuttle mission for medical reasons monitored the orbits of the Columbia
from Houston after it is launched.
12. A labor survey revealed that less than 4 or 5 percent of the labor force is doing its work at home last year.
13. The chairman will speak to the crowd, which did not appear to hear him even when he raised his voice.
14. Businesses are looking for software that they can adapt and applied immediately to their own accounting procedures.
15. The nurse's aides will have learned during their training last month that color blindness is a condition affecting thousands with
varying degrees of severity.
16. Since last fall, the young researcher watched the flowers she grows respond to the sun.
17. Workman clear brush away from the cave entrance when they suddenly saw what turned out to be the first unspoiled Indian
burial chamber to be unearthed in Utah.
18. Most universities although it accepts only people entering the freshman class.
19. The debate sponsoring by the partisan review drew a large crowd.
20. Hearing the bell, the examinees knew it was time to stop.
21. The permission that was needed to build the roads was being granted.
22. One's success cannot always measure in terms of money.
23. The pilots when they chose the most direct route to save fuel.
24. The reasons for rejected the proposal were numerous.
25. If the superintendent does not have changed his mind, there is nothing more to be done.
26. When he receives the money from the insurance company, he had rebuilt the house.
27. The position on the city council will be filled next week when the electorate votes.
28. The dentist fills the cavities every time the X-rays show that it was necessary.
29. When the bell rang, the students have left the class.
30. The space shuttle would be launched next month if the weather is good.
31. It is probable that the students who were tested yesterday were quite successful.
32. After forty-five students had signed up for the class, the class was closed.
33. The parking at the arena was inadequate for the tremendous number of drivers who will want to park there.
34. Because the copies were not cleat, he is not able to understand the report.
35. They have never returned to Rhode Island since they left in 1970.
36. In several of his paintings, Edward Hicks depicted the Quaker farm in Pennsylvania where he spends his youth.
37. Florida has become the twenty-seventh state in the U.S. on March 3, 1845.
38. After last week's meeting, the advertising department quickly realized that the product will need a new slogan.
39. John F. Kennedy's grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald, serves two terms as the mayor of Boston in the beginning of the twentieth
century.
40. Fort Ticonderoga, a strategically important fortification during the Revolution, had since been reconstructed and turned into a
museum.
41. In making their calculations, Institute researchers assume that the least costly form of energy would be used.
42. A 21-year-old man became the second casualty yesterday when he loses control of his truck.
43. Most people had written with quill pens until pens with metal points become popular in the middle of the nineteenth century.
44. After the chemist put the liquid in the test tube, he will mix it and then will study it.

The formula used in the study calls for either peroxide or metaldehyde, but metaldehyde was not always available.
TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (SKILLS 1-27): Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best completes the
sentence.
1. _____ in the U.S. declined from 20 million in 1910
to 9 million in the 1970's.
(A) For number of horses
(B) The number of horses
(C) When the number of horses
(D) That the number of horses
2. Because of his reservations about the issue, _____
refused to vote for it.
(A) who
(B) and
(C) which the senator
(D) the senator

3. Bats avoid running into objects by _____ highfrequency sounds and listening for echoes.
(A) the emission
(B) emitted
(C) emitting
(D) they emit
4. It has been estimated that if we intend to stay above
the starvation level _____ the world's food supply.
(A) so we will have to double
(B) and it must double
(C) which it must be doubled
(D) we must double

5. Barley generally grows best where _____ cool.

(A) is it
(B) the climate is
(C) its
(D) is the climate
Choose the letter of the underlined word or group of words that is not correct.
_____ 6. To determine the force of an object, the mass and acceleration of the object
A
B
should be measure.
D
_____ 7. The most common time for tornados to occur are in the afternoon or
A
B
C
evening on a hot, humid spring day.
D
_____ 8. When a country in an early stage of economic development, investments in
A
fixed capital are vital.
C
D
_____ 9. John Chapman became famous in American folklore as "Johnny Appleseed"
A
after he plants apple trees throughout the northeastern part of the U.S.
B
C
D
_____ 10. More serious plant diseases are caused by fungi as by other parasites.
A
B
C
D