Question

Qual das alternativas abaixo está incorreta de acordo com o uso de There to Be e seu adequado tempo verbal no contexto apresentado?
a)There is a lake called Tana in the ancient Kingdom of Aksum many years ago.
b)There are many intact pyramids of the kingdom of Kush nowadays.
c)There were four great civilizations of the ancient African world.
d) There was the kingdom of Aksum near the Red Sea.

Answer 1

Letter A is the incorrect.

Notice that there's a lack of agreement between the beginning and the end of the clause. The beginning is in present tense (there is), whereas the end is in past tense (many years ago), so the sentence should be correctly written as follows:

There was a lake called Tana in the ancient Kingdom of Aksum many years ago