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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.
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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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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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at January
Correction: in January
Explanation All the months of the year take the preposition IN
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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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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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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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all children should know cooking
Correction: all children should know how to cook
Explanation You know how to do something.
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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
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The cooker can be an electric or gas cooker
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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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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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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.

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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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