Task: the following sentences and click on the verb in the parentheses that best completes the sentence.
1. Carrie will go to college if she (will find, finds, has found) enough money to cover tuition.
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will find |
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finds |
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has found |
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2. Rocio had been living in Bogota for ten years when she (had decided, decided, will have decided) to leave.
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had decided |
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decided |
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will have decided |
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"Had been living" is an example of what's called the past perfect
progressive tense. "Had decided" is wrong not because the tenses
are different, but because of the sentence's meaning. We learn
that Rocio had been in Bogota for a while; "had been living"
indicates that the action occupied more than one moment in the
past - that the action was ongoing for a period of time. Making the
decision to leave has to happen at one fixed time, not over a period
of time. You can worry about a decision for a long time, but
actually making a decision occurs at one fixed moment. Therefore,
"she decided to leave" at one particular moment after a prolonged
stay in Bogota.
The final choice, "will have decided," makes the sentence jump into the future. This is incorrect because the first verb ("had been living") indicates that the action of the sentence both started and ended in the past.
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