Elevate Your Writing with Verb Tense and Choice
Enhance your writing by mastering verb tense usage and selection. Learn how to correctly use past tense and present perfect tense to elevate your academic writing. Identify and correct errors in verb tense, and practice selecting precise verbs for impactful writing. Perfect for improving your academic and professional writing skills.
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Verb tense and verb choice Taking our writing to the next level
Use past tense to: express an action or a condition that occurred at a specific, definite time in the past, as when discussing another researcher s work (APA, 2010, p. 78). Copeland and Keefe collaborated on several important works in the area of literacy development among individuals with intellectual disability and severe disabilities (Copeland & Keefe, 2007; Copeland & Keefe, 2017; Copeland, Keefe & de Valenzuela, 2014).
Use present perfect to: express a past action or condition that did not occur at a specific, definite time or to describe an action beginning in the past and continuing to the present (APA 2010, p. 78). Copeland has researched the literacy development of individuals with intellectual disability and severe disabilities (e.g., Copeland, Keefe, Calhoon, Tanner, & Park, 2011; Copeland, McCord, & Kruger, 2016). Researchers have examined (Abe, 2013; Baca & Cecil, 2000; Duncan, 2015).
Find the errors! Pair up. Read through the handout provided and find all of the errors in verb tense. Circle them and write the verb that should have been used.
Verb Choice Do not use the same verb in successive sentences rock it up! Check carefully to see if the verb you use is exactly the one you want. For example, is it really correct to write that the author says when it is a written text?
Whole Group Practice Let s try to find some different verbs: Gomez (2011) wrote that Allison and Parker (2000) found Chavez (2016) said The results of this study proved Research shows that
Mad Libs Pair up. Using the two-page handout with lists of different verbs, try to pick words to fill in the blanks on the four page handout that are precise and specific. Try to use a different verb every time. When you are done, ask for a copy of the original text and compare it with your choices.
