Analyze the following sentences below:
I. “Emily Dickinson was born on December 10,
1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts.” is in the past
simple tense.
II. “While she was extremely prolific as a poet and
regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she
was not publicly recognized during her lifetime.” is in
the past continuous tense.
III. “She died in Amherst in 1886, and the first
volume of her work was published posthumously in
1890.” is in the past perfect and simple past tenses.
IV. “The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson
(Belknap Press, 1981) is the only volume that keeps
the order intact.” is in the simple present tense.
Which ones are incorrect?