Read the following sentences and highlight all the verbs that you see.

1. When we go to work after graduation, we also need to read the documentation and make a contract.

2. When I first arrived at San Francisco airport, the staff wrote on my ticket the gate change information.

3. Even though the public is responsible for the major part of the pollution of the streets and sidewalks, it is the government's duty to make people follow the rules and bring the level of pollution to a minimum.

4. For me, even though I got a lot of help from others, it was difficult to come up with writing with a good quality.

5. She didn't realize that all her prides collapsed when she met her Chinese teacher in high school.

6. I was born and raised in Thailand so the language that I had to learn was thai.

Questions:

• What do you notice about the tenses of those verbs? Do you see any similarities or differences?

In this activity, we will look at some concordance lines from the Crow corpus. Concordance lines help us observe the keyword in context. When we search a keyword in a corpus, the concordance line puts the keyword in the middle and shows the surrounding text.

Take a look at these concordance lines and answer the following questions:

Option 1: (Sentence restructure) Choose the full sentence or the excerpt given below. Find the tense agreement issue and revise the sentence.

Excerpt:

When I get into high-level class, my teacher taught us how to write a grateful sentence in the passage and organize the passage orderly. My teacher Mr. Li let me enjoy some exquist passages that it would be greatly improve my writing skills. After few days study, I feel bit nervous about how to describe something in detail and vividly. The passage I wrote is boring and lost some spirits. My professor give me some suggestion that you should put the things you want to describe in a big environment and add some adjective to describe the events you want to write. After few times practice, I can easily write the passage precisely and emotional. It is good development of my native writing skill. That is why I can get today's achievement.

Option 2: Swap your paper with a peer and take 3 minutes to review their writing. Can you find any examples that do not follow the tense-agreement pattern? (Alternatively, do this activity with your own paper.) Use the following key words in your search.

• What

• Even though

• Because

• That