Read The Excerpt and Notice The Tenses Used For Each Verb. Identify The Function of Each Tense As Illustrated in The First Sentence

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Assignment

Read the excerpt and notice the tenses used for each verb. Identify the function of each

tense as illustrated in the first sentence.  

Approximately 10% of the population is diagnosed (present simple, function 4) with dyslexia

(Habib, 2000). Specialized testing most often reveals (present simple, function 4) this

disability in third grade or later, when there develops (present simple, function 3) an

observable differential between reading achievement and IQ (Wenar & Kerig, 2000). This

late identification poses (present past, function 3) severe problems for effective remediation.

At the time of diagnosis, poor readers are (present simple, function 3) on a trajectory of

failure that becomes (present perfect, function 2) increasingly difficult to reverse. Attempts

at intervention must both focus on remediation of the impaired components of reading as well

as extensive rehabilitation to reverse the growing experience differential. 

Educators and researchers are (present simple, function 1) aware of the need for early

diagnosis. In response, research investigating early correlates of later reading

ability/disability has burgeoned (present perfect, function 3) (e.g. Wagner et al., 1997).

However, these early reading studies primarily focus (present perfect, function 4) on school

age children (e.g. Share et al., 1984). To date, only a few studies have focused (present

perfect, function 3) on the reading trajectories of children younger than preschool, and

there is (present simple, function 2) little consistency within the existing studies (e.g.

Scarborough, 1990, 1991). 

In the current study, we trace (present past, function 2) the development of the two aspects

of the phonological processing deficit in a longitudinal follow-up study of two-year-olds.

Shatz et al. (1996, 1999, 2001) investigated (past simple, function 2) the underlying lexical
structure in two-year-old children. Although their experiments were tailored (past simple,

function 3) to examine early word learning behavior, their study

design is uniquely suited (present simple, function 3) to looking at the phonological

processing skills of two-year old children as well. In this study, we measure (present perfect,

function 4) the early reading skills of these same two-year-olds at five to seven years of age

in order to determine the predictivity of the early two-year old behaviors for later reading

ability. 

Adapted from Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers. (2009). Ann Arbor, MI:

The Regents of the University of Michigan.

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