For help with verb tense, seepages 254-57 of A Writer's Guidebook.

NOTE: Cutting, pasting, and adding or deleting text may cause awkward line breaks which you can correct by backspacing. Exercise 10 Verb tense Rewrite any of the following sentences to correct verb tense errors. 1. Mead wrote Coming of Age in Samoa after returning to the United States from Samoa, where Columbia University sent her for her first anthropological study. Mead wrote Coming of Age in Samoa after returning to the United States from Samoa, where Columbia University sent her for her first anthropological study.   2. According to Mead, Samoan girls did not experience the same problems that American girls encountered in adolescence. According to Mead, Samoan girls did not experience the same problems that American girls encountered in adolescence.   3. Several years later, Mead returned to fieldwork in New Guinea, where she applied the same methodology she used in Samoa. Several years later, Mead returned to fieldwork in New Guinea, where she applied the same methodology she used in Samoa.   4. As a result of this study, she wrote Growing Up in New Guinea, which discussed how children in New Guinea thought. As a result of this study, she wrote Growing Up in New Guinea, which discussed how children in New Guinea thought.   5. New Lives for Old, published twenty-six years later, traced the lives of these same children to adulthood. New Lives for Old, published twenty-six years later, traced the lives of these same children to adulthood.   6. The Lowell Mill Girls, edited by JoAnne B. Weisman and published in 1991, provided a very different look at the life of adolescent girls. The Lowell Mill Girls, edited by JoAnne B. Weisman and published in 1991, provided a very different look at the life of adolescent girls.   7. Full-time labor was not beneficial to adolescent girls, such as those who worked in the cotton mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s. Full-time labor was not beneficial to adolescent girls, such as those who worked in the cotton mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.   8. In the award-winning novel A Gathering of Days, by Joan Blos, the heroine's friend became a "factory girl." In the award-winning novel A Gathering of Days, by Joan Blos, the heroine's friend became a "factory girl."   9. Included in The Lowell Mill Girls is a story called "The Spirit of Discontent," which is written by an actual Lowell mill girl. Included in The Lowell Mill Girls is a story called "The Spirit of Discontent," which is written by an actual Lowell mill girl.   10. When it first appeared, the story introduces many people outside of the Lowell area to the problems and benefits of mill work. When it first appeared, the story introduces many people outside of the Lowell area to the problems and benefits of mill work. Please fill out the fields below to ensure correct delivery of your exercise. You will receive a confirmation notice. Your e-mail address Your instructor's e-mail address Your name CAUTION: If you check your answers and go back to this page using the links on the answer key, your changes will be gone. Use the back button on your browser to keep the changes intact. E-mail exercise to instructor Student answer key for this exercise (even-numbered answers only) Instructor answer key for this exercise (password protected)

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