9th grade Keep the tense, the voice and the pronoun steady worksheet

Keep the tense, the voice and the pronoun steady

Grade 9 Reading Worksheet - Challenge Me

Circle the best answer.

1. Read this first

   Draft

   Last spring, the robotics club entered a regional meet, and the robot was built by the members in only six weeks. The club packed their tools carefully, but a loose wire costs the team a point.

2. 1.

   Ari revises a club report. Which revision fixes the tense shift, the needless passive and the pronoun, and keeps every fact?

   • Last spring, the robotics club entered a regional meet, and the members built the robot in only six weeks. The club packed its tools carefully, but a loose wire cost the team a point.
   • Last spring, the robotics club entered a regional meet, and the robot was built by the members in only six weeks. The club packed its tools carefully, but a loose wire cost the team a point.
   • Last spring, the robotics club entered a regional meet, and the members built the robot in only six weeks. The club packed their tools carefully, but a loose wire cost the team a point.
   • Last spring, the robotics club entered a regional meet, and the members built the robot in only six weeks. The club packed its tools carefully, but a loose wire costs the team a point.
3. 2.

   Luz checks four sentences for a formal report. Which one has a steady tense, active voice for a named doer and agreeing pronouns?

   • The cleanup crew had gathered four hundred pounds of debris before the tide returned, and it delivered the haul to the harbor office.
   • The cleanup crew had gathered four hundred pounds of debris before the tide returned, and it delivers the haul to the harbor office.
   • The cleanup crew had gathered four hundred pounds of debris before the tide returned, and they delivered the haul to the harbor office.
   • Four hundred pounds of debris had been gathered by the cleanup crew before the tide returned, and the crew delivered the haul to the harbor office.
4. 3.

   An apology that owns the mistake and names who made it, written in the past tense by the club's officers. Tala drafts a note for the drama club. Which sentence serves the purpose, in the same tense, with the pronouns right?

   • We schedule two rehearsals for the same hour, and our mistake costs the cast an afternoon.
   • We scheduled two rehearsals for the same hour, and our mistake cost the cast an afternoon.
   • We scheduled two rehearsals for the same hour, and your mistake cost the cast an afternoon.
   • Two rehearsals were scheduled for the same hour, and an afternoon was lost by the cast.
5. 4.

   Pia checks four sentences for a formal report. Which one has the tense shift the time words need, active voice for a named doer and agreeing pronouns?

   • The museum's staff restored the quilt last March, and the museum now displays them near the entrance.
   • The museum's staff restores the quilt last March, and the museum now displays it near the entrance.
   • The museum's staff restored the quilt last March, and the museum now displays it near the entrance.
   • The quilt was restored by the museum's staff last March, and the museum now displays it near the entrance.

6. Purpose

   a news story that credits the history club for saving a flooded archive, with the doers named first, in the past tense.

7. 5.

   Bo writes a line for the school paper. Which sentence serves the purpose, in the same tense, with the pronouns right?

   • The flooded archive was rebuilt in a weekend by volunteers from the history club, and the club's oldest photographs were saved.
   • Volunteers from the history club rebuild the flooded archive in a weekend, and the club saves its oldest photographs.
   • Volunteers from the history club rebuilt the flooded archive in a weekend, and the club saved its oldest photographs.
   • Volunteers from the history club rebuilt the flooded archive in a weekend, and the club saved their oldest photographs.

8. Draft

   Before the storm reached the coast, the radar was moved inland by the weather team, and the team had tested their backup power twice. The team now tracked the system from the new site.

9. 6.

   Milo revises a weather-team memo. Which revision fixes the tense shift, the needless passive and the pronoun, and keeps every fact?

   • Before the storm reached the coast, the weather team moved the radar inland, and the team had tested its backup power twice. The team now tracked the system from the new site.
   • Before the storm reached the coast, the weather team moved the radar inland, and the team had tested their backup power twice. The team now tracks the system from the new site.
   • Before the storm reached the coast, the radar was moved inland by the weather team, and the team had tested its backup power twice. The team now tracks the system from the new site.
   • Before the storm reached the coast, the weather team moved the radar inland, and the team had tested its backup power twice. The team now tracks the system from the new site.
10. 7.

    Zee checks four sentences for a formal report. Which one has the tense shift the time words need, active voice for a named doer and agreeing pronouns?

    • Before the bus left the lot, the trip committee had counted their permission slips, and the committee now posts the list on the door.
    • Before the bus left the lot, the permission slips had been counted by the trip committee, and the committee now posts the list on the door.
    • Before the bus left the lot, the trip committee had counted its permission slips, and the committee now posted the list on the door.
    • Before the bus left the lot, the trip committee had counted its permission slips, and the committee now posts the list on the door.

11. Purpose

    a museum label for a wooden bowl whose maker is unknown, so no maker may be invented, in the past tense.

12. 8.

    Kira drafts a museum label. Which sentence serves the purpose, in the same tense, with the pronouns right?

    • This bowl was carved from maple about 1850, and it was later repaired with a metal band.
    • A craftsman carved this bowl from maple about 1850, and he later repaired it with a metal band.
    • This bowl is carved from maple about 1850, and it is later repaired with a metal band.
    • This bowl was carved from maple about 1850, and they were later repaired with a metal band.
13. 9.

    Esme checks four sentences for a formal report. Which one has a steady tense, active voice for a named doer and agreeing pronouns?

    • Each of the three exhibits opened in spring, and a short guide for visitors was written by its curator.
    • Each of the three exhibits opened in spring, and its curator wrote a short guide for visitors.
    • Each of the three exhibits opened in spring, and its curator writes a short guide for visitors.
    • Each of the three exhibits opened in spring, and their curator wrote a short guide for visitors.
14. 10.

    a brief that keeps readers' attention on the damaged boats, not on the storm, in the past tense. Noah writes a line for a local news brief. Which sentence serves the purpose, in the same tense, with the pronouns right?

    • Eleven boats are damaged when the storm struck the marina, and their owners are notified by phone.
    • The storm damaged eleven boats when it struck the marina, and the marina notified their owners by phone.
    • Eleven boats were damaged when the storm struck the marina, and their owners were notified by phone.
    • Eleven boats were damaged when the storm struck the marina, and its owners were notified by phone.