ACT Prep English: Verb Tense

By 2075, the United States Census Bureau predicts the population will of doubled.

• NO CHANGE

• had doubled

• doubled

• will have doubled

The imprisonment and eventual release of those early protestors transformed what people thought of privileged rights for the few. It had made a strong case for the settlers' right to freedom of assembly.

• NO CHANGE

• made

• makes for

• makes

Before they created a simpler code language, Russian spies had been using complicated cryptographs to send messages to one another for decades.

• NO CHANGE

• have

• are

• will have

As the ground shifted, the street had given way to a massive sinkhole.

• NO CHANGE

• had gave

• gave

• give

On a beautiful blue day when I was a child, I will go sailing with my mother.

• NO CHANGE

• gone

• went

• had did some

The result of his careful brush strokes is a painting that enriches the culture of the natives and took on a life of its own.

• NO CHANGE

• takes

• taking

• had took

When winter comes, the town will look virtually the same except for a few feet of snow covering the roads. The miners can, however, have sixteen tons of coal and a sore back to show for their efforts.

• NO CHANGE

• miners did,

• miners will,

• miners,

Although the drug begun to produce results, the doctors advised caution before declaring that the disease had been completely cured.

• NO CHANGE

• that had began producing

• that begun producing

• began producing

These archeologists excavating delicate burial sites and using special tools to unearth ancient objects that could be the key to understanding this civilization.

• NO CHANGE

• excavating delicate burial sites and use

• excavated delicate burial sites to use

• excavate delicate burial sites and use

Writing would of long been thought of as a private act, a solitary deed of putting pen to paper and crafting a story.

• NO CHANGE

• If writing had long been

• Writing has long been

• Supposing writing were long