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CA 3 Error Correction Exercise-Key

This document contains 14 sentences with common grammatical mistakes. The corrections provided fix issues with verbs, prepositions, plural/singular forms, parts of speech and other errors. Explanations are given for each correction to illustrate the proper grammatical rules or usage. The overall document serves as an exercise to identify and remedy frequent errors in the English language.

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CA 3 Error Correction Exercise-Key

This document contains 14 sentences with common grammatical mistakes. The corrections provided fix issues with verbs, prepositions, plural/singular forms, parts of speech and other errors. Explanations are given for each correction to illustrate the proper grammatical rules or usage. The overall document serves as an exercise to identify and remedy frequent errors in the English language.

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Modern Language #: English

Error Correction Exercise #


The following sentences contain common mistakes.
See if you can write the sentences again, correcting the mistake. Write an explanation if
you can.
For example:
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Correction:
Explanation
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I dont like the meat. (Im a vegetarian.)


I dont like meat.
We don't use "the" when we are speaking in general terms. Here the
person is not referring to a specific piece of meat, but rather about meat in
general.

Please send your answers to the name of folder space in the classroom.
1
Perfect! If Sandra is agree...
Correction: Perfect! If Sandra agrees...
Explanation The verb agree in English does not go with the verb To Be.
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2
these days are too many food shows
Correction: these days there are too many food shows
Explanation The correct form is There are for the plural and there is for the singular.
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3
at January
Correction: in January
Explanation All the months of the year take the preposition IN
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4
I enjoy this TV program at mornings
Correction: I enjoy this TV program in the mornings
Explanation Remember: in the mornings / in the afternoon / at night.
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5
You can choose the first or second plate.
Correction: You can choose the first or second course..
Explanation A plate is like a dish, in a restaurant you choose first and second course.
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6
There are many children with bad habits to eat
Correction: There are many children with bad eating habits
Explanation Bad and eating are adjectives of habits.
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7
all children should know cooking
Correction: all children should know how to cook
Explanation You know how to do something.
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8
The level it is very high
Correction: The level is very high
Explanation No need of double subject. Level is the subject so it is not necessary.
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He is presenter and cooker of the programme

Correction: He is presenter and the cook of the programme


Explanation The person is the cook
:
The cooker can be an electric or gas cooker
10
His dishes are a mix of traditional and height cuisine,
Correction: His dishes are a mix of traditional and high cuisine,
Explanation Height is a noun and the adjective is high .
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11
He is a success chef.
Correction: He is a successful chef.
Explanation Success is a noun and successful is an adjective.
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12
He gives some advices
Correction: He gives some advice / He gives some pieces of advice
Explanation Advice is an uncountable noun so it cannot have a plural form
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Correction:

I think that many programmes of cook teach lots of interesting things.


I think that many programmes about cooking / many cooking
programmes teach lots of interesting things.
Explanation If you want to say what the programmes are about you should say: about...
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/ or just use cooking as an adjective to say the type of programme.

14
The contestants are competing between them
Correction: The contestants are competing among them
Explanation You use between when there are two things.
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