Question

32 a student wrote sentences about her family. one sentence has a verb tense error. click on the sentence that has an incorrect shift in verb tense. during the school year, everyone in our family is busy. carol has soccer practice, and mike has softball practice. i am in junior band, a different time, and were all hungry. however, we never have dinner before mom got home from work.

Explanation:

To identify the sentence with incorrect verb tense shift, we analyze each sentence's verb tenses:

• "During the school year, everyone in our family is busy." uses present tense ("is"), consistent with a habitual situation during the school year.
• "Carol has soccer practice, and Mike has softball practice." uses present tense ("has") for habitual activities, consistent.
• "I am in Junior band, a different time, and we're all hungry." uses present tense ("am", "we're"), consistent.
• "However, we never have dinner before Mom got home from work." The main clause "we never have dinner" is present tense (habitual), but the subordinate clause "Mom got home" is past tense ("got"). This is an incorrect shift because the action of Mom getting home and the family having dinner is a habitual present - day action (implied by "never have dinner before..."), so the subordinate clause should also be in present tense (e.g., "Mom gets home").

Answer:

However, we never have dinner before Mom got home from work.