Read the paragraph.As I board the bus, I feel a sense of triumph. My team and I are on our way to play in the state championships. I think back to the beginning of the season. We lost our first three games. After the difficult start, no one thought we could come back and win the rest. We proved everyone wrong. We proved ourselves wrong! I find my seat next to my best friend and fellow fullback. We ______ out the window as the bus pulls away. We are off. Which best fits in the blank?
The paragraph describes what is happening as the bus pulls away, so the blank should use the present-tense verb “gaze.” The subject “We” takes the plural verb form “gaze”: “We gaze out the window.” “Gazed” is past tense, “were gazing” is past progressive, and “will gaze” is future tense, so they do not fit the present-tense narration.
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