title

Google
 
Web www.englishdaily626.com

 

[ Movie Reviews | Common Sentences | Glossary of Correct Usage | High School Vocab | Questions & Answers | Sample Letters ]

[ Movies Lines | Advertisements | Words Differentiation | Common Errors | Songs | Links ]

<<Prev

English Exercises > Error identification

Next>>

   

toefl

TOEFL

Vocabulary

 

conversation

English Daily Conversation

 

grammar

Learn grammar by example

 

idioms

Learn American idioms

 

 

 
 

The following passage contains 10 mistakes, such as grammatical errors, wrong prepositions and conjunctions. Correct the mistakes and rewrite the correct version of this passage.

   
  After a whole morning of (1) mowed the sprawling lawns, Yusuf was (2) absolute exhausted. He (3) droped under a tree onto the freshly-mowed lawn and dozed off.

He (4) will have (5) has a good sleep (6) because for the fire ant mound. Several of the insects (7) crawls over his feet and (8) stinged him on the toes. The bites wee so painful that the tired Yusuf (9) is jumping frantically around the lawn. At the same time, he was (10) slaping at the ants which had crawled to his ankles.

   
 
   
  Answers
   
  1. mowing    2. absolutely    3. dropped    4. would    5. had    6. but    7. crawled    8. stung    9. was    10. slapping
   
  After a whole morning of mowing the sprawling lawns, Yusuf was absolutely exhausted. He dropped under a tree onto the freshly-mowed lawn and dozed off.

He would have had a good sleep but for the fire ant mound. Several of the insects crawled over his feet and stung him on the toes. The bites wee so painful that the tired Yusuf was jumping frantically around the lawn. At the same time, he was slapping at the ants which had crawled to his ankles.

   
 
 

001    002    003    004    005    006    007    008    009    010    011    012    013    014    015    016    017    018    019    020    021    022    023    024    025    026    027    028    029    030    031    032    033    034    035    036    037    038    039    040    041    042    043    044    045    046    047    048    049    050    051    052    053    054    055    056    057    058    059    060    061    062    063    064    065    066    067    068    069    070    071    072    073    074    075    076    077    078    079    080    081    082    083    084    085    086    087    088    089    090    091    092    093    094    095    096    097    098    099    100    101    102    103    104    105    106    107    108    109    110    111    112    113    114    115    116    117    118    119    120    121    122    123    124    125    126    127    128    129    130    131    132

 

 
 

common mistakes

Common English mistakes

 

stories

Ancient Chinese stories

 

proverbs

Learn English Proverbs

 

slang

American Slang expressions


 Learn Chinese the easy way

Medical Explorer