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10. Evelyn felt she should have been promoted before Bill because

she worked at KC Corporation for five years longer than he.

Review Exercise 21-2 Recognizing and

Correcting Various Types of Shifts

The italicized portions of the following sentences contain unnecessary

shifts in voice or tense, or verbs that need to be shifted from the past

to the past perfect tense. Circle a, b, or c to indicate the type of

problem in each sentence; then correct the problem.

1. In the morning, we left our beds unmade, and when we came

back to the hotel room, the housekeeping staff cleaned the

room and made up the beds.

The problem in this sentence is

a. a shift in voice
b. a shift between past and present tense

c. past tense verbs that need to be further in the past (past

perfect)