Question
4.Rewrite the famous quotes making the tense backshift transformation. Quotes available at:https://pakwired .com/100-best -quotes-time Accessed on:December 302020. Example:"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."- Les Brown Les Brown (once)said (that)too many of us were not living our dreams because we were living our fears. a) "A person who never made an mistake ke never tried anything new."- Albert Einstein __ b) "Great minds discuss ideas;average minds discuss events;small minds discuss people."- Eleanor Roosevelt __ c) "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.- Helen Keller
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Resposta
a) "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einsteinb) "Great minds discussed ideas; average minds discussed events; small minds discussed people." - Eleanor Rooseveltc) "The only thing worse than being blind was having sight but no vision." - Helen Keller
Explicação
## Step 1The problem involves rewriting famous quotes by shifting the tense back. This means that we need to change the tense of the verbs in the quotes from present to past.## Step 2For quote a), "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein, we change "made" to "made" and "is" to "was". This is because the verb "is" is in the present tense and we need to change it to the past tense.## Step 3For quote b), "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt, we change "discuss" to "discussed". This is because the verb "discuss" is in the present tense and we need to change it to the past tense.## Step 4For quote c), "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." - Helen Keller, we change "is" to "was". This is because the verb "is" is in the present tense and we need to change it to the past tense.