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Exercise 4 - Editing for grammar errors in a response essay



Instructions: This passage contains four mistakes with Verb Tense and three mistakes with Incomplete or Incorrect Verb Forms. Click on the mistakes and correct the word or phrase in the box. When finished, check your answers with WHAT WE WROTE.

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Find 4 mistakes with Verb Tense.
                                                            Find 3 mistakes with Incomplete or Incorrect Verb Forms.

Adapted from: Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue," http://people.virginia.edu/~pmc4b/spring98/readings/Mother.html.
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