There are two verb tense errors in this paragraph. correct them: indeed, whilst the chinese allegedly strapped prisoners onto kites in the sixth century, and elmer of malmesbury was recorded as having glided for more than an eighth of a mile before crashing and breaking both his legs, it was not until the start of the 1900s that scientific attempts are made to get a man off the ground under his own steam. these bicycles-on-wheels might seem comical to today’s aeronauts, but in 1912 they are good enough to gabriel poulain scoop a prize of 10,000 francs, having allegedly flown his contraption more than a metre off the ground for distance of 10 metres.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.