Homework Help: Grammar

Posted by Cheril on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 6:19pm.

Write five sentences about the role of education in successful financial planning, in which you correctly use a different verb tense in each sentence.
• Mark each verb used in bold and, in parentheses, identify the specific tense used.

CAN YOU TELL ME IF THE SENTENCES BELOW ARE CORRECT??

1. College graduates earn (simple present tense) almost twice as much during their lifetime compared to high school graduates.
2. The skills you are learning (present progressive tense) in college will help you get a better paying job.
3. A college degree will qualify (future tense) you for many new jobs or may get you a promotion in your current job.
4. Upon graduation you will have expanded (future perfect tense) your social network, which can help in your new career search.
5. You could have saved (simple past tense) money on your taxes had you taken advantage of the tax credits available to those enrolled in school.

Grammar - Writeacher, Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 6:27pm
1 - 4 are fine.

5 is not. Rethink that tense.
Grammar - Cheril, Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 7:05pm
5. I saved (simple past tense) money on my taxes because I was enrolled in school.

Is it right now?
Grammar - Cheril, Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 7:16pm
Or should it be

5. Because I was enrolled in school I saved (simple past tense) money on my taxes.
Grammar - Writeacher, Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 7:49pm
Either one works, but if you're going to use the second one, put a comma after "school."

It was the "could have" that kept it from being simple past tense!
Grammar - Cheril, Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 9:02pm
What tense was the original sentence?
I think that sentence is the best out of the 3.

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