Item 18

Directions: Read the item below. Then choose the one underlined verb that is incorrect.

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At the beginning of class, Matt realized that he had forgotten the essay that he had wrote at 4 a.m., so he smeared blood-like streaks of red pen at the corners of his mouth and told his instructor, Professor Borglum, that muggers had beaten him up before stealing his backpack.