Decided to share my Week3 assignment - because I do not see myself the mistake, that one of the peers obviously spotted - that the verb tense is inconsistent somewhere. Re-read the below text few times - and cannot pot this inconsistency myself. Also regretfully nothing was written on this inconsistency in the comments. Could the forum visitors help? For all the other scores it is 100% of 100%, I am only looking where I was inconsistent in verb tenses.
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Local Street Product Market in the province of Groningen
This is Saturday, and we go with my hubby - as planned few days ago - to the local old estate, called Verhildersum, where the monthly street market of traditional and locally-made products takes place. It's still cold and windy, but the sun shines, adding finally to the feeling that long-awaited spring has come. After somewhat like 15 km drive we park the car, following the instructions given by volunteer youth traffic control, who help the market operate. It's crowded here! Well-known trio of violin-harmonica-guitar players inspires the visitors with somewhat old-style cheerful local music. We stroll along the stalls, looking around. Groups of people, some of them familiar, flock at the most prominent stands - one group enjoys tasting ciders, the other group discusses the flavours of local biologically made sausages and goat cheeses, some other people make their choice of bread and ready-made flour and grain mix. We wave our "hi, dear friend" to the cider stall boss - he lives in the same village as we do, only few houses apart, - and then join the other group with something that seems the most interesting to us: tasting the Wadden Sea local products. The edible gold of the Wadden! Smoked fish, - that was probably still swimming in the sea a week ago, - with slightly pickled herbs from the saltmarsh, first edible flowers from the local gardens, surprisingly tasty seeweed and a bit of natural sea salt. We take little crunchy toasts with every new thing, admire the delicate flavours and tastes, share perceptions, chat of some specifics of the recipies with the "chef" and her assistants, - and finally decide on the first things to buy. We always buy something here - not that it is always a must, but we so much like the atmosphere, and the market, and the local little businesses... It's fun and it's local tradition. We want to support it and be part of it. And it's great scene full of action!
This is Saturday, and we go with my hubby - as planned few days ago - to the local old estate, called Verhildersum, where the monthly street market of traditional and locally-made products takes place. It's still cold and windy, but the sun shines, adding finally to the feeling that long-awaited spring has come. After somewhat like 15 km drive we park the car, following the instructions given by volunteer youth traffic control, who help the market operate. It's crowded here! Well-known trio of violin-harmonica-guitar players inspires the visitors with somewhat old-style cheerful local music. We stroll along the stalls, looking around. Groups of people, some of them familiar, flock at the most prominent stands - one group enjoys tasting ciders, the other group discusses the flavours of local biologically made sausages and goat cheeses, some other people make their choice of bread and ready-made flour and grain mix. We wave our "hi, dear friend" to the cider stall boss - he lives in the same village as we do, only few houses apart, - and then join the other group with something that seems the most interesting to us: tasting the Wadden Sea local products. The edible gold of the Wadden! Smoked fish, - that was probably still swimming in the sea a week ago, - with slightly pickled herbs from the saltmarsh, first edible flowers from the local gardens, surprisingly tasty seeweed and a bit of natural sea salt. We take little crunchy toasts with every new thing, admire the delicate flavours and tastes, share perceptions, chat of some specifics of the recipies with the "chef" and her assistants, - and finally decide on the first things to buy. We always buy something here - not that it is always a must, but we so much like the atmosphere, and the market, and the local little businesses... It's fun and it's local tradition. We want to support it and be part of it. And it's great scene full of action!
Hey.
ReplyDeleteI don't find any verb tense inconsistency. However, I had the same problem, but was lucky enough, a peer felt a comment. So he/she took some points away because I was using present simple and present progressive. Yeah...
I see just one mistake in this sentence: Well-known trio of violin-harmonica-guitar players inspires the visitors with somewhat old-style cheerful local music. Players inspires. Plural with singular verb, but that's subject-verb disagreement, not the tense problem.
Great writing by the way. :)
Best,
Orinta.
Thank you ! Neither did I so far, but English is not my mother tongue, so who knows, may be indeed there is smth not good...
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