In this learning module, students will expand their range of editing skills and improve your writing by replacing passive verbs with active verbs and learning to use verb tense consistently. It will improve their voice, tenses, and mood.

This entry focuses on verb tense consistency in sentences, paragraphs, and essays by explaining the importance of maintaining verb tense throughout each and providing examples of each.

This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on creating Tense Consistency.

This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on creating Tense Consistency.

This reference from the McGraw-Hill CCCS Literacy eHandbook discusses the importance of keeping a consistent verb tense when writing. Students will see examples of ways to correct sentences that contain incorrect verb tense shifts. A...

Brief instruction on maintaining pronoun and verb tense consistency. Links to additional help and quiz are included.

A video explaining how to maintain verb tense consistency. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Verb tense consistency" and is followed by a three-question multiple choice quiz. [7:25]

A slideshow explaining how to maintain verb tense consistency. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Verb tense consistency" and is followed by a three-quesiton quiz to check for understanding.

After reviewing verb tenses, this online writing support shows how to maintain verb tense consistency within in sentences, withing paragraphs, and within entire essays.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use verb tenses with increasing accuracy in speaking and writing. Students will use past tense consistently for narration, and will recognize and use the term 'verb' appropriately.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Help students to use verb tenses with increasing accuracy in speaking and writing, e.g. catch/caught. Use past tense consistently for narration. Help students to use the term 'verb' appropriately.

This instructional activity focuses on verbs including functions and categories of verbs, types of verbs, irregular verbs, verb tenses, tense consistency, subject-verb agreement, verbals, and a variety of verb practice activities. It...

Notes about verb tense, when it should and should not be changed, and what tense is best to use when writing about literature.

Practice improving four sentences by correct verb tense shifts and eliminating unnecessary words.

Find fifteen worksheets designed to provide practice on maintaining verb tense. These exercises have been created expressly for elementary students. All worksheets are available as PDFs.

This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting Faulty Shifts in tenses.

Five areas to edit for shifts in writing: Consistent Point of View, Consistent Verb Tenses, Verbs Consistent in Mood and Voice, Shifts from Indirect to Direct Questions/Quotations, and Shifts from British to American English. Each area...

This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting Faulty Shifts.

This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting Faulty Shifts.

In this lesson, students will learn how to edit sentences so they move seamlessly from one to another within a paragraph; however, they can use the same methods to ensure that paragraphs move seamlessly from one to another in an entire...

This is a 24-question, grammar test requiring students to correct sentences with miscellaneous usage errors.

This is a 22-question, grammar test requiring students to correct sentences with miscellaneous usage errors.

This is the answer key for a 22-question, grammar test requiring students to correct sentences with miscellaneous usage errors.