A not so nice, old man A boy was riding a cycle with a basket of eggs on it. He hit a stone and fell down alongside the cycle. The eggs also fell and all of them were broken. A crowd gathered around the boy. Free advice and taunts immediately started flowing from the onlookers: “Couldn’t you be more careful?” “What were you thinking, cycling, casually without attention?” An old man saw the crowd and he approached it then said, “Poor fellow. Now, what will he tell the shop owner about the eggs? Well, I am going to help him as well as I can.” Then he handed over Rp50,000 to the boy. He further said, “These onlookers are good people. They will not only give you advice, but they will give you money to help you pay for the eggs. You should accept their help”. The onlookers seemed to agree with the old man and did as he said. The boy was very happy since the money he got was over the worth of the broken eggs. One of the onlookers asked the boy, “Young man, if that old man weren’t around, I do not know what difficulty you would have faced with the shop owner.” The boy looked at the man and said, “Sir, he is the owner of the shop where I work”. The text above mostly uses ____ tense.

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A not so nice, old man

A boy was riding a cycle with a basket of eggs on it. He hit a stone and fell down alongside the cycle. The eggs also fell and all of them were broken. A crowd gathered around the boy. Free advice and taunts immediately started flowing from the onlookers:

“Couldn’t you be more careful?”

“What were you thinking, cycling, casually without attention?”

An old man saw the crowd and he approached it then said, “Poor fellow. Now, what will he tell the shop owner about the eggs? Well, I am going to help him as well as I can.” Then he handed over Rp50,000 to the boy. He further said, “These onlookers are good people. They will not only give you advice, but they will give you money to help you pay for the eggs. You should accept their help”.

The onlookers seemed to agree with the old man and did as he said. The boy was very happy since the money he got was over the worth of the broken eggs. One of the onlookers asked the boy, “Young man, if that old man weren’t around, I do not know what difficulty you would have faced with the shop owner.”

The boy looked at the man and said, “Sir, he is the owner of the shop where I work”.

The text above mostly uses ____ tense.