Here are the correct forms of the verbs and words provided in the text, along with a brief grammatical explanation for each. Corrected Text It was late at night but the light was on in Ted’s room. When I came in, he didn’t even turn to me. I looked at his monitor and realized that he was surfing the internet for job vacancies. “Why do you need a job?” I asked. “You were employed by Mr. Green only a week ago as far as I remember.” “Yes, I was. I got a job of a waiter in his restaurant. But I have lost (or had lost) that job already. They said I was rude to a client.” “Were you?” I was surprised since Ted was the most patient and tolerant person I’d ever met. “Yes, it was probably rude of me to tell those ladies that I wouldn’t bring them anything else. Just imagine – they had changed their order three times! Each time they tried a dish, they did not like it. When they said that for the fourth time, I lost control. One of the women called for the manager and complained.” Ted nervously turned back to his computer. “I didn’t like that job anyway.” Grammar Explanations
| Word | Correct Form | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| come | came | Past Simple: Used for a finished action in the past that happened at a specific moment. |
| surf | was surfing | Past Continuous: Describes a long action that was in progress at a specific moment in the past. |
| employ | were employed | Past Simple Passive: The subject (Ted) received the action. The time is specified ("a week ago"). |
| lose | have lost | Present Perfect: Used with "already" to show a past action with a result in the present. Note: "had lost" is also acceptable in narrative past. |
| patient | most patient | Superlative Adjective: Used when comparing Ted to all other people the speaker knows. |
| I | me | Object Pronoun: Used after a preposition ("of") when the person is the object, not the subject. |
| not/like | did not like | Past Simple Negative: Describes a series of finished actions in the past. |
| four | fourth | Ordinal Number: Used to indicate the position in a sequence. |
| woman | women | Irregular Plural: "One of the..." must be followed by a plural noun. |
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