Globalisation: A Brief History GRAMMAR - Find and correct 10 mistakes.

Решение:

В тексте нужно исправить 10 ошибок, связанных с использованием времен глаголов. Ниже приведены исправленные варианты слов.

• Globalisation changed the world dramatically over the past two centuries.
• ...steamships and railways have appeared.
• ...services had started operating across the Atlantic.
• The term "globalisation" was beginning to appear in the 1930s-1950s.
• ...companies had already started to expand their operations across borders.
• In the 1980s, something important happened. China opened its economy to foreign investment while many other countries were reducing their trade barriers.
• Thomas Friedman, an American journalist, was publishing his famous book "The World Is Flat" in 2005. In this book, he described three eras of globalisation. The first era began in 1492 and lasted until 1800.
• The second era started around 1800 and continued until 2000.
• ...multinational companies had become the main drivers of global trade.
• But in 2009, world trade volumes fell by 2.8 percent.

Ответ: changed, have appeared, started, beginning, had, opened, were, lasted, continued, had become, fell.