Verbs in Depth Writing Practice This activity will give you a chance to practice your editing skills using the information about verbs in the previous lessons.

You are helping your friend by peer-editing his research paper over Japanese Americans during World War II. He has asked you to concentrate on his use of verbs and his subject-verb agreement. Carefully read the paragraphs below. Rewrite them correctly.

In February 1942, the United States government began a concerted effort to forcibly remove and incarcerate people of Japanese ancestry from several western states. Never before have the government casted aside core principles of American democracy in the spirit of protecting the people, land, and war effort from perceived threats. These threats supposedly comes from people of a certain nationality. Caving to public and political pressure, a program was implemented by the government that still weighed heavily on the public conscience all these years later.

Several factors contributes to the decision by the United States government to removed people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast States. An underlying and pervasive factor is the racial prejudice that are inflicted on Japanese Americans—and Asians in general—from their earliest arrival in the United States.