genatrigo  +  611582 Mon, 15 Dec 08 11:48 PM Many thanks, Gave it a look, got a Grammar and i think I got it, can someone take a look, and advice me about my choices? Thanks There (be) has been ( present perfect?)drought here for the past 15 years; for the past four years it (be)  has been (perfect?) increasingly severe and this year the area (have)  had (Past) only half as much rain as in the previous year. The sands (move) moved (past?) south.  Now the desert (sweep) sweeps (present because its an action that still hapens) around the town and (surround)  surrounds/surrouding (present?) it entirely. Occasionally it is possible to glimpse beneath the dust the baked clay surface of what was once a fertile loam, but that is rare. Huge dunes of sand (creep) is creeping  (Present Pcontinuos) onwards, thousands of tons at the rate of 20 miles a year. genatrigo Joined on Sun, Dec 14 2008 New Member 07 Present Tenses, Present Perfect

	AlpheccaStars  +  611585 Tue, 16 Dec 08 12:04 AM  Good job! There is only one error of subject-verb agreement. Also,did you select "surrounds" or "surrounding"? "Surrounding" needs an auxilliary verb. AlpheccaStars Joined on Sun, Oct 12 2008 Senior Member 3,508 The pen is mightier than the sword. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) Mistakes

	genatrigo  +  611586 Tue, 16 Dec 08 12:12 AM Now the desert (sweep) sweeps (present because its an action that still hapens) around the town and (surround)  surrounds/surrouding (present?) it entirely. I think it is surrounds - I understand that it is a present action..it surrounds it(town) entirely. am I right? Thanks genatrigo

	AlpheccaStars  +  611700 Tue, 16 Dec 08 05:27 AM It could be either "is surrounding" or "surrounds" both are present tense. There is one more error in a subject/verb agreement. AlpheccaStars Tenses, Present Tenses, Mistakes