-don’t forget you have tutorials tomorrow at 8:45.
Please complete the paragraph exercise below for tomorrow. This means you need to rewrite the paragraph and highlight or underline the corrections you have made.
You will notice several shifts in tense in the following paragraph describing action in a fictional narrative. You will need to fix the incorrect tense shifts.
In “The Use of Force” William Carlos Williams describes a struggle involving a doctor, two parents, and their young daughter. The doctor must obtain a throat culture from the girl, who was suspected of having diphtheria. This ordinarily simple task is hindered by the frightened and uncooperative patient, Mathilda Olson. Adding to the doctor’s difficulties were the parents, who had to struggle with their own conflicting emotions. They want their daughter helped, but they did not trust the doctor to do the right thing. Sensitive to the parents’ uncertainty, the doctor became more and more frustrated by Mathilda’s resistance. Williams gives considerable attention to how each of the Olsons react, but it is clear that his main interest was in the doctor and his responses.(adapted from a student essay)