I sent this to LearningExpress and herewith send a Bcc to you, wondering how so many grammar teachers in America can let this sort of thing happen as often as it does. Someone is not paying attention.
I'll file it as Exhibit #124 to my assertion that there is at least one perfect error on any grammar website or in any grammar text you can name. There are 123 others just like it in my file. Challenges continue to be appreciated. Try me. Name a grammar source you think might be free of perfect errors. Make me eat my words. Go ahead. Take a shot.
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page 36. With irregular past participle: Justin has lost his cell phone. Wrong.
page 37. Past perfect example: Luckily, Cory's flight had left the airport before the snowstorm hit. Wrong.
Some Common Irregular Verbs, page 37.
Past begin choose drink eat grow hide
Present began chose drank ate grew hid
Past Participle begun chosen drunk eaten grown hidden
There's a little something the matter with them, don't you think? Look carefully or you'll miss it.
page 41. Make the necessary changes to the boldfaced verbs in each sentence. You can check your answers on the following page.
12. Mrs. West spend the weekend in New York City with her daughter.
One of three answers: Mrs. West had spent the weekend in New York City with her daughter. Wrong.
Numbers 14 and 15 likewise include incorrect answers.
Glossary item on page 216. Perfect tense: the verb tense that implies(?) that an event or state was started and ended.
Looks like something that might be said of the past tense, don't you think?
If the rest of the book is as carelessly put together as these items indicate, you need to find someone who understands Standard English Grammar and let them help you.
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