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Egyptian2007 Posted 18 years ago
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0 Would you please correct this paragraph for me? I'm more concerned with tenses. Thanks. 02 br
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01 b 00 Having considered the importance of piloting my interview schedules, and bearing in mind the issue of time limitations, I decided to allocate the first week of my fieldwork to the pilot phase. The piloting site was the school where I used to be a teacher more than ten years ago. I chose this school because it was located in my hometown, at a reasonable walking distance from my house. My choice was also encouraged by the fact that I had good personal relationships with the head teacher as well as a large number of the school faculty, including administration staff. The head teacher used to be a deputy head at the same school when I was a teacher, while three of the deputies used to be senior teachers. We had worked together for five years and have always had good relationships that continued even after I have left the school. Although I was equipped with a formal approval to visit the school, I relied heavily on the good rapport that I had established with those people. Such a good rapport facilitated my task considerably as it guaranteed me easy access to the school site and made people therein easily approachable. 02 b 0-
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01 b 00 Having considered the importance of piloting my interview schedules, and bearing in mind the issue of time limitations, I decided to allocate the first week of my fieldwork to the pilot phase. The piloting site was the school where I used to be a teacher more than ten years ago. I chose this school because it was located in my hometown, at a reasonable walking distance from my house. My choice was also encouraged by the fact that I had good personal relationships with the head teacher as well as a large number of the school faculty, including administration staff. The head teacher used to be a deputy head at the same school when I was a teacher, while three of the deputies used to be senior teachers. We had worked together for five years and have always had good relationships that continued even after I have left the school. Although I was equipped with a formal approval to visit the school, I relied heavily on the good rapport that I had established with those people. Such a good rapport facilitated my task considerably as it guaranteed me easy access to the school site and made people therein easily approachable. 02 b 0-
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0 This is a good paragraph and the tenses of your verbs are consistent. even after I have left... That first verb, had worked, is past perfect tense.
- 0 This is a good paragraph and the tenses of your verbs are consistent.
- even after I have left...
- That first verb, had worked, is past perfect tense.
- The rest of the paragraph is simple past tense- 01 del 00 so this one should be, too.
- " The second and third verbs 02 del 00 -have always had and have left--are present perfect, and should also be just simple past tense.
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0 This is a good paragraph and the tenses of your verbs are consistent. The only sentence that has a problem is, "We had worked together...and have always had good relationships...even after I have left... That first verb, had worked, is past perfect tense. The rest of the paragraph is simple past tense- 01 del 00 so this one should be, too. That is, "We worked together..." The seco
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I went to a school reunion last week. I was very surprised- so many things had changed. They tear down the old gymnasium,and the library disappeared.Ihad walked slowlyaround the school.
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AnonymousI went to a school reunion last week. I walked slowly around the school. I was very surprised -- so many things had changed. They tore down the old gymnasium, and the library had disappeared.It made more sense to me to say you walked around the school first and then talk about the changes you saw.
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