Assignment Instructions: Your understanding of tense of verbs and to review, and improve your writing skills as it relates to verb tenses, voice, and mood. Rewrite each sentence below, changing all verbs to the present tense.
1. Over a million people came each year to see the White House in Washington, D.C., the home of the presidents of the United States.
2. The White House was almost two hundred years old, just a little younger than the United States itself.
3. Some presidents have added a few new touches, but no one has changed the graceful mansion very much.
4. The stately building had over 50 rooms-or 130, if you counted the rooms in the east and west wings.
5. The building contained a priceless collection of historical objects.
6. An army of almost a hundred people cleaned and repaired the house.
7. Both the respectful and the rowdy converged on the presidential mansion.
8. Alarms and guards have kept out unwelcome visitors.
9. Still, the White House had remained one of the few homes of a chief of state that regularly opened its doors to the country's citizens.
10. Many Americans felt that, in a sense, the White House was their home as well as that of the presidents.