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  • Each line maps to a question.
  • If the delimiter is used in a question, the question should be surrounded by double quotes: "My, question","My, answer"
  • The first answer in the multiple choice question must be the correct answer.

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Correct the mistake: Top tennis players are not smoking
DO NOT / DON'T SMOKE - present simple is used for things that are general
Correct the mistake: I live on the Belmont Road
Do not use 'the' with street names
Correct the mistake:The team didn't play as good as I expected
WELL - good is an adjective, you need an adverb
Correct the mistake: The news are so depressing at the moment
NEWS is singular
Correct the mistake:Is he coming to? I hope not
too
Correct the mistake: I can't afford a holiday, I don't have money enough
Word order - enough comes after an adjective but before a noun
Correct the mistake: Go Cromwell street towards
Prepositions come before ' go towards...
Correct the mistake:We had a so good time
such a + adjectived followed by noun - such a good time
Correct the mistake:In my country we start the school at six
don't use ´the´when talking in general
Correct the mistake: They have four sisters which are very nice
WHO - who for people, which for things
Correct the mistake: I have been living in Spain since four years
Since with a point in time but FOR with a period of time
Correct the mistake: I am living here since I was ten
Use present perfect (continuous)
Correct the mistake: She was borned in 1991
she was BORN in 1991
Correct the mistake: I try my best not to do mistakes
MAKE mistakes
Correct the mistake:We have had such a terrible weather
weather is uncountable
Correct the mistake:She went always to work by bus
word order - she always went...
Correct the mistake: I don't can see you until the day after tomorrow
don't use 'don't' before modals - can't
Correct the mistake:Yesterday was a holiday, we didn't must go to school
use 'have to' for past necessity
Correct the mistake: I haven't never been there
don't use a double negative - I have never been there
Correct the mistake: Are you interesting to learn this?
INTERESTED IN
Correct the mistake:My sister has twenty years old
My sister IS...
Correct the mistake:It depends of the day..
depends ON
Correct the mistake:I am completely agree with you
I completely agree - no verb to be
Correct the mistake: They have done enough the government to solve the problem
word order - the government have done enough to solve the problem
Correct the mistake: The researcher´s trip was very insuccessful
unsuccessful


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