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Tense Shift

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Make sure that if you telling a story about a past event, use past tense verbs throughout. People sometimes forget to conjugate the second or third verb in a sentence.

INCORRECT: I was playing in the woods behind my school with my friends, where we are running between trees to try to catch each other.

INCORRECT: I was playing in the woods behind my school with my friends, where we were running between trees to try to catch each other.
I was playing in the woods behind my school with my friends, and we running between trees to try to catch each other. We were having a lot of fun until I fell on the ground and my leg with a branch. As soon as the teacher saw this, she me to the hospital and I had to wait 3 hours before a surgeon to see me. After that, I a lot of stitches. It was the most traumatic experience of my life.
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