GRAMMAR & RULES & EXERCISES
COLLECTED BY"GUELLIL MABROUK"
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Unit One: articles and NounsII/answers key
Unit One: articles and Nouns
Answer Key
Unit Eight: Prepositions
Grammar Exercise One
Try to fill in the correct prepositions in the following paragraphs.
1) Indeed, it is very interesting to know about mother-daughter relationships in other families. Being a
girl myself and having a good mother, I still could not deal with her sometimes. It’s OK, I guess, to have bad
times as long as there is understanding and love between you and your mom. It we take a look at the texts
“Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, we see how the mothers are trying to be
overprotective, tough, so that their daughters can be better than them. Care or even the expression of “tough
love” is good; however, it is a bad thing when mothers try too hard to make daughters become someone they
want us to be. These texts are full of examples similar to what we all have been through.
2) Most women in this century have a voice nowadays. Now we have more jobs that were categorized
just for males before. After World War I, women were given new opportunities. They stopped being
categorized only for domestic chores. Women also started to vote and started to get jobs in the government.
They also started movements to make their voices heard. Even though we have had all these advances, there
are still oppressed women in the world. There are women who are still under the control of their husbands.
One reason may be for the economic subsistence of their children. For example, I know a man by the name
of Sonny who is very responsible with his wife and son. However, he is very possessive. He thinks that he is
the father of his wife. He wants to control her. He always tries to have power over any woman that he meets.
He is a macho man. One time when I was in their house, my friend was talking on the phone and he was
listening to her conversation on the other phone. It is not right for men to have power over women.
3) I am an only child in my family, so I have thought about if I had a brother or sister, how my life would
be. Maybe I would not feel lonely when my parents go to work; maybe I would not feel helpless when I suffer
from some problems. However, having brothers or sisters is both good and bad. I remember that my friend
told me that her older brother took care of her a lot. He would cook for her when their parents were not at
home, teach her when she had some questions about her homework, and he bought a laptop for her when
she attended college. Having an older brother or sister is good for the family because they will take care of
their younger brothers and sisters, and help them solve some problems. Even though parents have more
ideas and experience to help their children, they have less time to stay at home because of their work. So the
older brother or sister will be a good teacher. They can offer some ideas to their younger brother or sister,
and share their experience with them.
Proofreading Exercise
Correct the errors in the use of articles, nouns, verbs, punctuation and sentence structure, and word forms in
the following essay (The types and numbers of errors are indicated at the end of each paragraph of the
essay):
I have a younger sister. She is thirteen now, eleven years younger than me. Yes, I was eleven when my
sister was born, and to tell you the truth, I hated her in the beginning. I was the only child in the family for
eleven years. Also I was the first granddaughter for my grandparents, and the first niece for all my uncles and
aunts. I was a very spoiled child. My mom and dad were doing everything for me. I had all that a child could
possibly wish for. But not only my parents, my grandparents spoiled me too. Also, my uncle, who didn’t have
kids of his own at the time, spoiled me a lot. He would buy me presents almost every week: expensive toys
and clothes; also, he would take me to ___parks, cafes, movie theaters. Of course, by the time I turned
eleven, I got used to the idea that I would get whatever I would ask for.
So you can imagine that the occurrence of another child in my family didn’t make me happy. Certainly,
she was a little one now, and like all infants, she needed a lot of attention. But I didn’t want to understand that.
All I saw was that all the attention was on my sister. Everybody was talking about her, playing with her, and
that made me angry. My dad would take me to the movies on weekends, like he used to before, even though
my mom needed him home. He did this because if he didn’t, I had hysterics. I hated my sister for stealing my
place in the family.
Then a few years passed. I got older and started to like my sister. I actually found that it was fun and
interesting to play with her. I felt myself like an adult, who could teach her some useful, interesting things. I
would take her to the movies, parks, almost everywhere I went with my friends. She would share her little
secrets with me. It was so touching. I became for her something between an older friend and a mother. She
would tell me things she couldn’t tell my mom, like about a boy she liked in school, or a fight between her and
her friend.
My sister is thirteen now. I can’t say we are very close now. It is just that we are from two different
generations, and see many things differently, especially because she is growing up in a different country
(She was seven when our family immigrated to the United States). But I love her very much anyway.
In conclusion, I would like to say that we can’t choose our relatives; that is why we have to learn to love
and accept them.
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