diamondcutter
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- Oct 21, 2014
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- Chinese
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- China
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- China
May name is A.J. and I hate school.
The only cool part of Ella Mentry School is the school store. It’s a little room near the office where they sell stuff. Mostly they have pencils and pens and junk like that. They never have anything useful, like skateboards or video games. Still, it’s cool to buy stuff when you’re at school.
The school store is open in the morning before the bell rings. The only problem is I spent all my allowance over the weekend on a new football because some kid stole mine. So I didn’t even have a dime to buy anything at the school store. Bummer in the summer!
Source: My Weird School 16 - Ms Coco Is Loco, Dan Gutman
These are the very first lines of the book to introduce the background of the story.
I'd like to know whether it's necessary for the verb “is” in the sentence in red to be “was” to agree with the tense of the other verbs: spent, stole and didn’t have.
The only cool part of Ella Mentry School is the school store. It’s a little room near the office where they sell stuff. Mostly they have pencils and pens and junk like that. They never have anything useful, like skateboards or video games. Still, it’s cool to buy stuff when you’re at school.
The school store is open in the morning before the bell rings. The only problem is I spent all my allowance over the weekend on a new football because some kid stole mine. So I didn’t even have a dime to buy anything at the school store. Bummer in the summer!
Source: My Weird School 16 - Ms Coco Is Loco, Dan Gutman
These are the very first lines of the book to introduce the background of the story.
I'd like to know whether it's necessary for the verb “is” in the sentence in red to be “was” to agree with the tense of the other verbs: spent, stole and didn’t have.
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