After Naomi Campbell caused a disturbance outside a former boyfriend's home, police arrested her.
This sentence contains an error in verb tense sequence. These errors are challenging to identify, but it is important to understand them because they often appear on standardized test questions.
The sequence of events is as follows:
- Naomi caused a disturbance.
- Police arrested Naomi.
Since Naomi caused the disturbance before the police arrested her, the verb in the first clause should be in the past perfect tense and the verb in the second clause should be in the simple past tense. The past perfect tense is used to indicate that an action was performed before another action.
To correct this error, change "caused," which is in the simple past tense, to its past perfect tense form.
After Naomi Campbell had caused a disturbance outside a former boyfriend's home, police arrested her.
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