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Correct the mistakes

June 6, 2014 - pdf

Rewrite the following sentences correcting the mistakes.

1. We have lived here ........................................ 10 years.

Correct! Wrong!

2. He was accused ............................................. stealing.

Correct! Wrong!

3. We .......................................... the work yesterday.

Correct! Wrong!

4. You won’t get well unless you ......................................... your medicine.

Correct! Wrong!

5. He has been living in this house ...................................... five years.

Correct! Wrong!

6. We .............................................. English for the last seven years.

Correct! Wrong!

7. Yesterday ........................................... a holiday, he went to see a film.

Correct! Wrong!

8. The new headmaster wants a house to ..........................................

Correct! Wrong!

9. I ................................................ for you since 9 o’clock in the morning.

Correct! Wrong!

10. I ........................................ all the books to the library yesterday.

Correct! Wrong!

Answers

1. We have lived here for 10 years. (We use ‘for’ to indicate duration.)

2. He was accused of stealing. (Accused collocates with the preposition ‘of’.)

3. We finished the work yesterday. (The present perfect tense cannot be used with adverbs of past time.)

4. You won’t get well unless you take your medicine.

5. He has been living in this house for five years.

6. We have been learning English for the last seven years. (To talk about an action or situation that started in the past and has continued up to the present, we use the present perfect continuous tense.)

7. Yesterday being a holiday, he went to see a film.

8. The new headmaster wants a house to live in.

9. I have been waiting for you since 9 o’clock in the morning.

10. I returned all the books to the library yesterday.

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