GRAMMAR & RULES & EXERCISES
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Unit One: articles and NounsII/answers key
Unit One: articles and Nouns
Answer Key
Unit Two: Verb Tenses
Proofreading Exercise One
Correct the errors in the use of verbs in the following sentences:
1. Everyone is looking for someone who always listens to his or her feelings, and who sometimes suggests
a right way to move forward.
2. Laura made a high, invisible wall, which protected her from anyone who tried to approach her.
3. This is something that a person who does not have a brother cannot describe.
4. When a sister likes a dress and her brother says that she looks bad, sometimes it is good to listen to him.
5. Tom doesn’t like the way that his mother treats him.
6. Tom doesn’t like to hear about things that happened when his mother was young.
7. Tom has had this plan for a long time.
8. My sister is controlled by her husband. Sometimes, she doesn’t have the right to choose.
9. Women had to stay married even if they didn’t love their husbands.
10. Just because she is younger than me, that does not mean that she knows less.
11. Since the time we immigrated, we have had some misunderstandings and fights.
12. There are no two identical people on this planet.
13. She lost me when she thought I belonged to her.
14. As a result of love, people get married.
15. If two people living together cannot trust each other, it ___, certainly, will end in divorce.
16. Women work more and take financial responsibility to support their families.
17. In history, we have had many wars, and it seems like we are going to have more, though nobody
wishes that.
18. Everyone in this world has problems: Some have physical problems and some have emotional
problems.
19. Love is something that changes the world.
20. Steven had encouragement from his family and his condition improved.
21. The writer doesn’t tell the reader about what kind of decision he needed to make.
22. I was pleased that I made the right decision.
23. She is pushing her daughter to get married and doesn’t understand her.
24. The mother did not have her own private life.
25. In 2002, I met a very good person.
Proofreading Exercise Two
Correct the errors (indicated in the margin) in the use of articles, nouns and verbs in the following paragraphs:
1) ___ 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. In the poem “The Wake,” the
poet shows us a view of how death affects us humans when it takes away an important member of our
family. ___ Death is not expected ever, but when it comes and takes someone close to you, it can’t be
accepted right away. When this happens, you feel that inside you, something is missing; it is a feeling of
emptiness. 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.
2) There could be many reasons why a person is shy. Maybe she or he was raised in a certain
environment that caused the development of shyness. This concept is connected with one of the characters
in the play “The Glass Menagerie” - Laura Wingfield. Laura chooses to avoid social situations because they
give no reward to her, and she finds the sensory input overwhelming. Laura fears such situations and feels
that she has to avoid them And in order to avoid this, she creates her own imaginary reality, Laura’s private
world.
3) In ancient China, there was a law that men 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
women when they married. Moreover, most of these 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. At that time, there were two kinds of people who let their daughter get
married with someone they did not love and who was older than them. One was to make more money and
get higher status, such as letting their daughter marry a king. Another was to avoid threats because in
ancient China some governors would punish people who did not let their daughters marry them.
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