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Exercise 8b: Verb Tense Agreement with other Verbs - Advanced

Rewrite the verbs that must agree, putting them into both the present and past tenses. Then click the SUBMIT button to see how you did.

  1. Studs Terkel wrote many books, among them WORKING and DIVISION STREET: AMERICA. He uncovers his subject matter as he looked around him at the real lives of real people.

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  2. WORKING explores many different types of work, yet it included more interviews of manufacturing and service workers and fewer interviews of professionals.

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  3. One of the themes of Working is that workers feel they are treated like machines and didn't like this particular feeling.

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  4. Working was a reflection of its times; it is first printed in 1972.

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  5. Terkel honed his interviewing skills through his own series of jobs: he acted, writes books, and interviews people on his radio show.

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