Review the item:
If Eli cooked and ate the half
head of raw cabbage (the only item in the refrigerator), he knew that he
would burp through his date with Amy, so he drived
to the food store and bought
a box of macaroni and cheese to fix instead.
The second verb, drived, is the problem. The sentence requires the simple past. Drove is the correctly spelled form.
| Verb | Simple Present |
Simple Past |
Past Participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| drive | drive(s) | drove | driven |
Ate, the verb you chose, is perfectly correct. Before you continue, review the rules for irregular verbs.