| Coverage : The GMAT Practice Test - Sentence Correction - Tense Error has been designed to test the important aspects of Sentence Correction. This test covers one of the errors while phrasing a gramatically correct sentence, namely a tense error. When a sentence starts with one tense and ends with another, it is a case of a tense error. |
| 1. | The glamorous lives of models, movie stars and famous celebrities more often than not enthrall the younger generation. |
| a. | | often than not enthrall the |
| b. | | often than not have enthralled the |
| c. | | often enthralled the |
| d. | | often than not are enthralling the |
| e. | | often than otherwise enthralls the
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| 2. | In the English class, I sit next to Paul, who is the captain of the football team and decidedly the best football player in New England. |
| a. | | I sit next to Paul, who is the captain |
| b. | | I sat next to Paul, who is the captain |
| c. | | I used to sit besides Paul who is the captain |
| d. | | I sit next to Paul, and he was the captain |
| e. | | I sat besides Paul, who is the captain
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| 3. | Joanne has walked five miles a day for the last seven years and has never complained. |
| a. | | Joanne has walked five miles a day |
| b. | | Joanne had been walking five miles a day |
| c. | | Joanne used to walk for five miles a day |
| d. | | Joanne walked five miles a day |
| e. | | Joanne had walked five miles a day
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| 4. | Clark Garrison, a musician who is beginning to attract the attention of young and old music lovers alike, composed and sang his first song "Dancing in the Rain" and he was only nine years old then. |
| a. | | and he was only nine years old then |
| b. | | when he was only nine years old then |
| c. | | even when he was only nine years old then |
| d. | | but he was just nine years old then |
| e. | | when he was only nine years old
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| 5. | In order to reach his school on time, Tom has jogged three miles a day until he bought his car. |
| a. | | Tom has jogged three miles a day until he bought his car |
| b. | | Tom was used to jogging three miles a day until he bought his car |
| c. | | Tom had jogged three miles a day until he bought his car |
| d. | | Tom has been jogging three miles a day till he has bought his car |
| e. | | Tom jogged for three miles a day till he had bought his car
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| 6. | Even before he reached his home, John knew what he had wanted to have said. |
| a. | | John knew what he had wanted to have said |
| b. | | John already knew what he had wanted to have said |
| c. | | John knew what he had wanted to say |
| d. | | John knew what he should have wanted to have said |
| e. | | John knew he had wanted to say what
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| 7. | A doctor at the City Clinic in New York claims that if women gave up smoking and eat a healthy diet, their children would be less likely to develop lung diseases. |
| a. | | claims that if women gave up smoking |
| b. | | claims that if women give up smoking |
| c. | | claimed that when a woman gives up smoking |
| d. | | claims that if a women gives up smoking |
| e. | | claimed that when women gave up smoking
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| 8. | Although the dinosaurs are extinct now, they were once present on our planet in large numbers. |
| a. | | they were once present on our planet in large numbers |
| b. | | it was once present on our planet in large numbers |
| c. | | they were once present on our planet among large numbers |
| d. | | they were present on our planet in large numbers once |
| e. | | they were once upon a time present in our planet in large numbers
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| 9. | Richard exercises in the morning, leaves for his office at ten and returned home at seven every day. |
| a. | | leaves for his office at ten and returned home at seven every day |
| b. | | leaves for his office at ten and returns home at seven every day |
| c. | | left for his office at ten and returned home at seven every day |
| d. | | leaves for his office at ten and returns at seven to his home every day |
| e. | | left for his office at ten o'clock and returned home at seven o'clock every day
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| 10. | When John was younger he walked for five miles every day and has lifted weights too. |
| a. | | every day and has lifted weights too |
| b. | | every day but lifted weights too |
| c. | | every day and has been lifting weights too |
| d. | | every day and lifted weights too |
| e. | | every day and had lifted too
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