Here is the item:
After bumping the wobbly table, Neil cought
the box of doughnuts before it hit
the floor, but no one drank
juice that morning because the carton exploded in a spray of orange on the
kitchen tile.
The first verb, cought, is the problem. As you know, the sentence requires the simple past. Caught is the correctly spelled form.
| Verb | Simple Present |
Simple Past |
Past Participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| catch | catch(es) | caught | caught |