Task: the following sentences and click on the verb in the parentheses that best completes the sentence.
1. Carrie will go to college if she (will find, finds, has found) enough money to cover tuition.
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While it is true that the first verb in the sentence, "will go," is in the future tense, the future "will find" does not fit with the meaning of the sentence. Carrie will go to college once she has enough money, so she needs to find the money in the present tense before she will be able to attend college. Therefore, the proper choice is "finds." This might be easier to see if you rearranged the sentence and started with the if-clause. Thus, "If she finds enough money to cover tuition, Carrie will go to college."
The final choice "has found" is incorrect. This choice would work if there were a deadline involved - if Carrie's ability to attend college depended on her having found money by a certain date. As the sentence stands, the perfect "has found" doesn't work because there's no reason why the sentence needs to travel into the past.
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