In fact, public officials, argues Confucius, are able to maintain order among those they govern only by pursuing an ethical and just life. One of his most important teachings was that truly virtuous people had an obligation to teach by example.
Confucius did not want disorder and lack of morality in China, so he decided to become a teacher of the values and moral lessons he read about in the
literature and philosophy of the ancients.
Which of the following sentences is not in the same verb tense as the other sentences

The second one hope this

Syllable added to a root word to change its meaning : affixan independent word--example run,walk,book : free morphemeaffix that gives grammatical meaning such as tense or number : inflectiona word part that must attach to a word in order to be usable : bound morphemedegree of comparison formed by adding -er or more to an adjective : comparativedegree of comparison formed by adding -est or most to an adjective : superlativeaffix added to the beginning of a word : prefixaffix added to the end of a word : suffixroot word of lovable : lovetwo roots used together to form one word : combining form

Well first of all i think you need to add an excerpt from the story or passage. i think it might be d though.