Hope everyone found this exercise useful. Let me go through and make some points about the clues provided. Then, if anyone has questions, please send them along.
The writer or speaker is talking about events happening which require the use of the present continuous tense (am, is are + verb + ing form of the verb. Other events take place before this moment which require the past simple tense ( verb + ed or irregular past tense). There are other verbs that require the present simple for a regular action or habitual action (verb + s or es). I have marked all of the tenses that we have reviewed. There are some other issues to discuss in this paragraph, but those can wait for now.
Here’s the rewrite:
Last Sunday, I drove (past simple tense because of last Sunday) to Santa Maria which is (present simple because this does not change) a beautiful town near the Pacific Ocean. I went (past simple because of ten years ago) there ten years ago with my parents, and I wanted (past simple) to visit this town again. My mother grew (past simple – my mother has finished growing) up in Santa Maria. Right now, I am writing (present continuous because of right now) to you about the trip because I believe you should go there for the weekend. The air is (present simple – the air is always the same) fresh and clean in the town. My friend Peter went (past simple – Last Sunday) with me and we had (past simple – Last Sunday) great hamburgers at a charming restaurant that was (past simple – finished in 1970) built there in 1970.
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Barbara92106
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