Literary Present Tense Correct the errors in tense. Rewrite the paragraph in your books, please Grenville wrote the novel to challenge conventional notions of settlement in Australia. Whilst her initial intention was to write an account of her ancestor's experiences upon arrival in Australia, it became clear that a fictional account had far greater potential. William Thornhill was a British man who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Van Dieman’s Land. His wife, Sarah, was appointed his master, and so travels on board the Alexander with her husband and their young son. The conditions in which they lived were atrocious but nothing could prepare them for the harshness of their new life and, in particular, for their encounters with Aboriginal people, On the first night, Thornhill was disturbed by a Darug man who watched him from the shadows. Frightened, Thornhill ordered the man to ‘Be off. Be off.’ (p 7) and the man did leave but the confrontation left Thornhill shaken and foreshadowed trouble in the ensuing years. Grenville’s story unravelled the moral dilernmas faced by settlers and built empathy for the plight of Indigenous Australians. Literary Present Tense Correct the errors in tense. Rewrite the paragraph in your books, please Grenville wrote the novel to challenge conventional notions of settlement in Australia. Whilst her initial intention was to write an account of her ancestor's experiences upon arrival in Australia, it became clear that a fictional account had far greater potential. William Thornhill was a British man who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Van Dieman’s Land. His wife, Sarah, was appointed his master, and so travels on board the Alexander with her husband and their young son. The conditions in which they lived were atrocious but nothing could prepare them for the harshness of their new life and, in particular, for their encounters with Aboriginal people, On the first night, Thornhill was disturbed by a Darug man who watched him from the shadows. Frightened, Thornhill ordered the man to ‘Be off. Be off.’ (p 7) and the man did leave but the confrontation left Thornhill shaken and foreshadowed trouble in the ensuing years. Grenville’s story unravelled the moral dilernmas faced by settlers and built empathy for the plight of Indigenous Australians. Literary Present Tense Correct the errors in tense. Rewrite the paragraph in your books, please Grenville wrote the novel to challenge conventional notions of settlement in Australia. Whilst her initial intention was to write an account of her ancestor's experiences upon arrival in Australia, it became clear that a fictional account had far greater potential. William Thornhill was a British man who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Van Dieman’s Land. His wife, Sarah, was appointed his master, and so travels on board the Alexander with her husband and their young son. The conditions in which they lived were atrocious but nothing could prepare them for the harshness of their new life and, in particular, for their encounters with Aboriginal people, On the first night, Thornhill was disturbed by a Darugman who watched him from the shadows. Frightened, Thornhill ordered the man to ‘Be off. Be off.’ (p 7) and the man did leave but the confrontation left Thornhill shaken and foreshadowed trouble in the ensuing years. Grenville’s story unravelled the moral dilernmas faced by settlers and built empathy for the plight of Indigenous Australians.