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10.52
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TYPICAL ERROR
CORRECTION
EXPLANATION
Each of these passages lacks cohesion because the writer has failed to use the perfect (completed) tense consistently. Change the inconsistent verb.
a
Since ancient times, oppression of one group by another
a continual problem.
b
Since then, I
that I prefer short holidays to extended holidays.
c
The reason that we
any storms today is the dry air coming from the south.
d
In Zimbabwe, hundreds of farmers are living in poverty because they
driven off their land by President Mugabi's land reforms.
e
The army did not leave the cyclone-damaged town until all the cleanup
finished.
f
They would not have gone on the walk if they
it was going to rain.
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