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the movement of the progress bar may be uneven because questions can be worth more or less (including zero) depending on your answer. which sentence from the first handwritten letter is in the past tense?
○ tomorrow i begin my search for work.
○ we all want to save our money to bring our families over to america.
○ i was nervous as i went through inspections here.
○ sophia, you will see, i will begin our future here in america.
reading passage
legacy
1 as a young child, i remember listening to stories about angelo pagano, my great - grandfather who emigrated from italy to the united states in the early 1900s. i had always envisioned him traveling on a ship like the titanic, sailing across the atlantic in a luxury liner to his new home in america.
2 those fanciful images faded one warm autumn day when, as i was cleaning out the attic, i uncovered a collection of old letters tied together with a worn green ribbon. the paper was yellow and dry and started to crumble as i touched it. as i carefully untied the ribbon and unfolded the top letter, i realized the writing was italian. my knowledge of the language is limited to spaghetti and espresso, but from the greeting at the beginning of the letter and the signature at the end, i could tell that the letter was written by my great - grandfather to sofia, his beloved wife and my
To determine the past - tense sentence, we analyze each option:
- "Tomorrow I begin my search for work." uses the simple present tense (begin) to talk about a future action.
- "We all want to save our money to bring our families over to America." uses the simple present tense (want) to express a current desire.
- "I was nervous as I went through inspections here." uses the past tense ("was" - past of "be", "went" - past of "go").
- "Sophia, you will see, I will begin our future here in America." uses the future tense ("will see", "will begin").
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The sentence "I was nervous as I went through inspections here." (the third option among the given sentences) is in the past tense.