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 Nine: Infinitives & Gerunds
Proofreading Exercise
Correct the errors in the use of articles, nouns, verb forms (including infinitives and gerunds), 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):
Men get married with women because they love each other and understand each other, so they would
like to live together. However, some marriages are not good, and it will not bring happiness to women.
In ancient times, marriage always was a bridge to connect money and status. Ancient people
believed that ___men were better than women. Therefore, there were not rules for women to go to school
and choose their own happiness. Women had to stay at home before they married, and had to do
housework, and take care of their children when they married, but they did not have happiness in marriage.
In ancient China, there was a law for men who were allowed to get married with more than one woman. So
nobody would think about those women’s happiness, because they had to share their husband with other
woman when they married. So most of these women would quarrel and hurt each other to get their position
every day. Moreover, most women married someone who was older than them, by more than ten years, so
when they lived together, there was no communication, and the feelings of these women were controlled
by men. However, no one would care about women’s happiness in that society. There were two kinds of
people who let their daughters get married with someone they did not love and who was older than them:
One was to make more money and to get higher status, such as letting their daughters get married with a
king, and the other was to avoid threats that the government made, because in ancient China, there were
some governors who would punish people who did not let their daughters get married to them.
(a-4, pl-2, v-20, p-4, wf-1)
In modern times, marriage has become more free and fair. Women have a chance to choose their
own happiness. However, there still are women who use their marriages to make more money and get
higher status. For example, a woman wants to marry a man because he is rich, so she will not care about
anything, even though she marries an old man. That kind of woman is foolish, because she does not know
what marriage is; she thinks that money and status will be more important than her happiness. Therefore,
she has no difference from the women who lived in ancient times, because she still cannot get happiness.
(a-2, v-5, p-2, ss-2, wf-1)
What effects will it bring if people marry someone who they do not love, and have an age problem?
When two people live together, communication is important, because both of them will understand each other
through communication. Then they can face and solve problems together and their life will be happy. If two
people get married because of bad reasons, they will not know how to communicate with each other. They
will feel unhappy in the family and want to get free from their own family. According to the story “The Story of
an Hour” by Kate Chopin, there is a woman who has a bad marriage. She marries someone she does not
love and both of them may have an age problem. There is no communication between two different age
people when they live together, because with a couple who has an age problem, both of them will have
different opinions and have arguments when they have a problem. So if two people marry who do not love
and have an age problem, they will feel bored and will want to escape from their life.
Marriage should not be a tool to make money or get higher status. It should be a union of two loving
people.
(a-5, v-4, p-2, wf-1)
Unit Ten: “That Clauses”
Proofreading Exercise
Correct the errors in the use of articles, nouns, verb forms (including infinitives and gerunds), 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):
___Human life begins when one is conceived, and it culminates with ___ death. This reality makes us
try to live and enjoy every single day of our life the best that we can, because death is something that is
uncertain. Nobody knows when is going to be the moment to depart, to who knows where. In the poem “The
Wake,” Rita Dove shows us a view of how death affects us humans, when it takes away an important
member of our family.
Death is not expected, but when it comes and takes someone close to you, it can’t be accepted right
away: “When I sat down in the armchair your warm breath fell over my shoulder.” This process of acceptance
varies among people. When this happens, you feel that inside you something is missing. It
is a feeling of
emptiness: “Friends and relatives kept coming, trying to fill up the house.” But after a while, this feeling goes
away. ___ People
accept the fact that this person is no longer there and is not coming back ever again: “I
slept because it was the only thing I could do. I even dreamed. I couldn’t stop myself.”
(a-3, v-6, p-2, ss-1, wf-1)
I know what it is like when you lose somebody that you love. In 1993, after three days of coma, my
father passed away. It was devastating when I got to the hospital that Monday morning, and I found out that he
was dead. The personnel at the hospital told us that there were bacteria in his system which caused his
death. I really don’t think that humans are ready to receive ___ news like this, even if the person who is ill is at
the hospital for a long time. It took me days, months, and years of crying and depression to adapt myself to a
new life without him. The process was long, but I did have to accept it, early or late, that he was not there and
that he never will be there for me again.
In conclusion, Rita Dove describes how sad is the whole process of acceptance, but at the end, she
made it clear that every person sooner or later, faces the reality and finishes by adapting to a new life
without that person: “I slept because it was the only thing I could do. I even dreamed. I couldn’t stop myself.”
(a-2, v-3, p-2, wf-1)
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