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Mamger Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Tense sequence (KPDS - our century’s youngest great choreographer)

As the decade ---- to wind down, Mark Morris ---- as our century’s youngest great choreographer.
A) has begun / had stood
B) will begin / is standing
C) was beginning / has stood
D) begins / stands
E) is beginning / has been standing

A question taken from KPDS, an official proficiency tets in Turkey. All choices sound a bit weird to me. Which one would you pick?
  

Top answer

D. It's the only option where the two tenses match.

— Nona the brit

  • D.
  • It's the only option where the two tenses match.
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D. It's the only option where the two tenses match.
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InchoateknowledgeDE
I can understand D and E, but how can B possible?
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I think you were editing your message while I was quoting it. Emotion: smile
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B isn't possible. The point of these things is that most of the options are not possible.
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MamgerI think you were editing your message while I was quoting it. Emotion: smile
Yes. Although grammatical
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This is not a literal use of stand, so remove all cases of progressive tenses. Remove B and E.
Next remove (from ACD) all cases where tenses don't match: A has-had C was-had.

Only D remains.

CJ
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Thank you very much for your responses. D was thought to be the only correct answer for this question in Turkey too. We just needed a native approval, and took some of the most precious ones.
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Nona The BritD. It's the only option where the two tenses match.
I think "As ..." requires that, indeed.
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