Almaza S.

asked • 09/21/17

English 12 Grammar and style question please help me!!

A. PRACTICE: Place a check mark next to each sentence whose main verb is in the present tense.
....1. Arnold’s and Kipling’s lives overlap by twenty-three years.
....2. Both poets lived during Queen Victoria’s reign.
....3. Kipling receives the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
....4. A Nobel Prize carries with it great distinction.
....5. Matthew Arnold was never honored with such an award.
....6. His ideas, however, are admirable.
....7. In a volume on social criticism, Arnold urges people to base their lives on the “best that
has been thought and said in the world.”
....8. Kipling, on the other hand, is known as an imperialist, though perhaps a cautious one.
.....9. After a long absence, he returned to India at the age of seventeen.
......10. Many of Kipling’s writings display his affection for Indian life.
Please help me with this question, please. Thank you!

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