I nedenstående romanuddrag er præteritum (datid) anvendt som centraltid og pluskvamperfektum (førdatid) anvendt som førtid. Omskriv verballeddene (udsagnsleddene) i teksten, så præsens (nutid) anvendes som centraltid og perfektum (førnutid) som førtid. Understreg de ændrede verber som vist i eksemplet.
Eksempel:
Her hair hung around her knees…Her hair hangs around her knees…
Her hair hung around her knees as she pulled up her socks. Loretta dug through dusty boxes until she found the yellow sweatshirt with the faded image of a moose on skis. It still fit. She squeezed into a pair of old leggings and heard the elastic give out. She went through the boxes remembering each thing – where she’d gotten it and what it had meant – until this became torturous and she lay on the floor wanting to die. If […] sleeping in this house didn’t make her cry, then it was settled, she was not human.
There was a knock at the front door, probably the landlord. Loretta didn’t move. The knocking continued.The doorbell had broken long ago and had never been repaired. When she was sure he was gone, she got up and dumped all the boxes into the trash bags.
Rachel B. Glaser, “DAY 4”, 2017
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