The cadet wrote in his diary, "Yesterday I reached the academy and realize my kit was incomplete." Which revision fixes the tense error?
Q1. The cadet wrote in his diary, "Yesterday I reached the academy and realize my kit was incomplete." Which revision fixes the tense error?
Answer: Yesterday I reached the academy and realized my kit was incomplete.
Explanation: Both verbs should stay in the past time frame set by yesterday, so reached and realized match correctly. Mixing realize with past reached breaks tense consistency.