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Which answer corrects the shift in verb tense in the sentence?

Tarik repaired the tires on his bicycle, and he takes it for a ride.

ATarik repaired the tires on his bicycle, and he took it for a ride.
BTarik repaired the tires on his bicycle, and he had taken it for a ride.
CTarik has repaired the tires on his bicycle, and he takes it for a ride.
DTarik will repair the tires on his bicycle, and he takes it for a ride.

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The corrected sentence is A. Tarik repaired the tires on his bicycle, and he took it for a ride.

Both verbs are in the past tense. Repaired is the past tense of repair, while took is the past tense of take.

Tarik repaired the tires on his bicycle, and he took it for a ride.
This sentence has the correct shift in verb tense because both verbs are past tense.

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