-S-4a Verb Tenses

Edit the following sentences to correct problems with VERB TENSE. Write correct after any

sentences that dont contain errors. Answers to even-numbered items can be found at the

back of the book.

EXAMPLE produce

American film studios have produced new movies every year.

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1. The first film studios were in New York, but Hollywood, California, has soon become the

preferred location because of its good weather and plentiful land.

2. By the 1930s, each studio became known for a specialtyfor example, Warner Brothers

created gritty crime dramas on a tight budget.

3. To combat complaints about racy content, Hollywood enforces a set of rules known as the

Motion Picture Production Code from 1934 to 1968.

4. One of the rules limits the length of an onscreen kiss to three seconds.

5. Alfred Hitchcock worked around this requirement in To Catch a Thief by interrupting a

lengthy kiss between Cary Grant and Grace Kelly with shots of exploding fireworks.

6. In 1947, some members of Congress argued that communism influences film topics and

dialogue; many writers, directors, and performers were blacklisted from film work for

decades as a result of these accusations.

7. Critics today see High Noon, a 1952 western about a town that turns against its sheriff, as

an allegory about the hysteria surrounding the communist scare.

8. World War II influences American film as it did every other part of American life.

9. Soldiers who fought overseas had higher expectations about accuracy in settings, so movies

began to be filmed outside of the United States.

10. Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer starred in the 1965 film The Sound of Music, based

on a 1959 Broadway hit.

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