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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

tense

Hello,
Is the sentence below correct in terms of the tenses used? Thank you!

Good teachers keep in touch with children’s parents to pass on information if a child is behaving in a disturbing way or when children do not keep up with thematerial.
  

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These are more natural: Good teachers keep in touch with children’s parents to pass on information if a child is behaving in a disturbing way or when children if they are not keep ing up with the material. Good teachers keep in touch with children’s parents to pass on information when a child behaves in a disturbing way or when children they do not keep up with the material. Use parallel structures as much as possible.

  • These are more natural: Good teachers keep in touch with children’s parents to pass on information if a child is behaving in a disturbing way or when children if they are not keep ing up with the material.
  • Good teachers keep in touch with children’s parents to pass on information when a child behaves in a disturbing way or when children they do not keep up with the material.
  • Use parallel structures as much as possible.
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These are more natural:

Good teachers keep in touch with children’s parents to pass on information if a child is behaving in a disturbing way or when children if they are not keeping up with the material.

Good teachers keep in touch with children’s parents to pass on information when a child behaves in a disturbing way or when
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thank you so much. this is what I thought.

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