On the other hand, the grammar items mostly dealt with appropriate verb tense, subject-verb agreement, count versus non-count nouns, possessive pronouns, conjunctions, and passive voice, and did not require a deep understanding of the content of the passage.
The results of the post-test (pen-and-paper writing) revealed that the students in the experimental group outperformed their counterparts in terms of using appropriate articles and tense.
All versions are considered equivalent as the items are identical and differ only in developmentally appropriate language and tense.
Read The Elements of Style, for example, to determine the appropriate capitalization, grammar, tense, etc. Continue writing, now armed with a handy guide to avoid all those time-burning questions!
The passive tense is appropriate: artifacts were found.
The present tense is appropriate because the sun will be hot forever (or at least until we no longer care).
Letters to clients drafted other than with the use of the conditional tense where appropriate were invariably described as inelegant.
The present tense is appropriate because there is no reason to believe this kind of police activity, begun in 1968 when Scotland Yard started to infiltrate groups opposed to the Vietnam war, has stopped.
Alec has done a very good job of characterizing the current series so far, and I'd agree that a downshifting from dramatic to tense seems appropriate for now.
The questions about their attitudes to students were similar for both groups with appropriate modifications to the tenses of verbs to fit the timing of the questionnaire.
I hoped to overcome my neurotic dependency on the proper tense and the appropriate idiom.
