Quick Grammar Help!!?

Question

"Teasing her as it crinkled its velvet folds, the curtain merely laughed and insisted that she *waited* awhile longer before she indulged in an audience."

Should it be wait

waits

OR

waited?

Or do you have a better way to phrase this sentence....thank you!

Answer 1

wait ( i need the points so please choose meas best answer)

Answer 2

it is waits

Answer 3

I would say: "Teasing her as its velvet folds crinkled, the curtain merely laughed and insisted that she wait awhile longer..."

It's wait.

Answer 4

wait

If you break the sentence down to simple subject/predicate it will make more sense.

:the curtain  insisted that she *wait*  before she indulged in an audience."

Answer 5

wait

Answer 6

wait

its'

Answer 7

Your sentence is present tense - that calls for the use of the present tense form of the word "wait"

You don't ask someone to waits - x*x

You don't ask someone to waited -x*x

You DO ASK someone to WAIT   8-)