Question

Read this excerpt. Note the verb tense in the sentence “When I look into the small rectangle, I see a face looking back at me but I don’t recognize it.”

There is a mirror over the steel sink in my cell. It's six inches high, and scratched with the names of some guys who were here before me. When I look into the small rectangle, I see a face looking back at me but I don't recognize it. It doesn't look like me. I couldn't have changed that much in a few months.

—Monster, Walter Dean Myers

Which choice shows the same sentence properly written in past tense?

When I look into the small rectangle, I saw a face looking back at me but I don’t recognize it.
When I looked into the small rectangle, I see a face looked back at me but I didn’t recognize it.
When I looked into the small rectangle, I saw a face looking back at me but I didn’t recognize it.
When I look into the small rectangle, I saw a face looked back at me but I didn’t recognize it.

Answer 1

@db154890 when you're changing tenses, you need to change the tense of the verbs.

in this case your verbs are "look" and "see". what are the past tenses of look and see?