Jeremy recently gave his students an assignment on the simple future tense. After they practiced the structure in class, he asked his students to go home and write three sentences in the future tense. When receiving written work from students, it is often difficult for teachers to determine how best to correct their work. This is especially true if the teacher is making corrections at home where he cannot ask the student to explain what he or she was trying to say. For the sentence below, choose the best way for Jeremy to correct the student’s sentence:

Tomorrow I will play hiking with my friend in the mountains.

a.
There are a number of errors to correct in this sentence. The adverb of time, “tomorrow”, should be moved to the end of the sentence. The student should choose one verb, either “play” or “hiking”, but not both. Also, the preposition “in” should be replaced with “on” to more accurately describe where the student will be hiking.

b.
He should remove the word “hiking” from the sentence as “play” is a more general term that encompasses hiking, so “hiking” is unnecessary in the sentence.

c.
He should explain to his student that for activities that involve moving from one place to another, we use “go” rather than “play”. “Play” is typically used for sports and games.

d.
He should change the main verb, “hiking”, to the infinitive form when using it with a future-tense auxiliary verb such as “will”.

Jeremy recently gave his students an assignment on the simple future tense. After they practiced the structure in class, he asked his students to go home and write three sentences in the future tense. When receiving written work from students, it is often difficult for teachers to determine how best to correct their work. This is especially true if the teacher is making corrections at home where he cannot ask the student to explain what he or she was trying to say. For the sentence below, choose the best way for Jeremy to correct the student’s sentence:

Tomorrow I will play hiking with my friend in the mountains.

a.
There are a number of errors to correct in this sentence. The adverb of time, “tomorrow”, should be moved to the end of the sentence. The student should choose one verb, either “play” or “hiking”, but not both. Also, the preposition “in” should be replaced with “on” to more accurately describe where the student will be hiking.

b.
He should remove the word “hiking” from the sentence as “play” is a more general term that encompasses hiking, so “hiking” is unnecessary in the sentence.

c.
He should explain to his student that for activities that involve moving from one place to another, we use “go” rather than “play”. “Play” is typically used for sports and games.

d.
He should change the main verb, “hiking”, to the infinitive form when using it with a future-tense auxiliary verb such as “will”.