Mistakes spotting

Mistakes Spotting

There is an error in each of the following sentences. Underline the incorrect word

and try to correct it:

1. The letter was addressed to both Jane and she.

2. The term “technology” refers to the discoveries and inventions that help people

improve its way of life.

3. Brooklyn, New York, had a population of about 23,000 when it becomes a city in

1834.

4. There is nothing us waiters can do.

5. Can you help they three with their lessons?

6. The first United States citizen to become a professional sculptor was Patience

Lovell Wright, which works were executed in wax.

7. Do you put “Your’s truly” at the end of a letter?

8. Ensuring an adequate water supply have been a concern ever since people began

to live in towns and cities.

9. The most substances expand in volume when they are heated.

10. Due to sophisticated transportation networks, people can now buy the same types

of perishable goods in Toronto like in New York City.

11. As inevitably as human culture has changed with the passing of time, so does the

environment.

12. A significant proportions of the plants and animals of Hawaii exists nowhere else

in the world.

13. Mass advertising is employed when person-to-person selling is impractical,

impossible, or simply inefficiency.

14. He is the one whom I believe is interested in fine arts.

15. The United States Department of Agriculture supervises the quality, clean, and

purity of meat.

16. This twenty-storied building is belonging to a farmer.

17. Moles are almost completely blind, although its tiny eyes can distinguish light

from dark.

18. The gorilla, while not as curious than the chimpanzee, shows more persistence and

memory retention in solving a problem.

19. The belief in fairies have existed from the earliest times, and the literature of

many countries includes tales of fairies and their relationship to humans.

20. Salt Lake City, Utah’s capital and largest city, is industrial and banking center.

21. Historians have never reached some general agreement about the precise causes of

the Civil War in the United States.

22. Duke Ellington was the first person to compose extended jazz works and gives

regular jazz concerts.

23. Although they are in different countries, Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan

are close neighbors and cooperate on numerous matters of mutually interest.

24. First incorporated in 1871, Dallas, Texas, had become the seventh largest cities in

the United States by 1976.

25. A radio telescope is an instrument that collects and measured faint radio waves

given off by objects in space.

26. She has been working as a saleswoman since she had finished high school.

27. A flight recorder shows how aircraft systems behave by giving information such

as a plane’s high, direction and rate of descent.

28. It is not unusual for ballet dancers wear out more than one pair of toe shoes during

an evening’s performance.

29. When a magnet is free suspended, it becomes a compass.

30. The most worst economic reversal of the twentieth century, the Great Depression

of the 1930’s, began in the United States and spread abroad.

31. The ability to retain a mental record of earlier experiences are referred as

“memory.”

32. Approximately fifty percent of the package utilized in the USA are for foods and

beverages.

33. Whether as statesman, scientist, and philosopher, Benjamin Franklin was destined

to gain lasting honor throughout much of the world.

34. Hawks can spot their prey from a great distance and attack swiftly, quietly and

accuracy.

35. By 1988 Gordon Parks had made two documentary films, wrote two bestselling

books, and had accrued thirty years of experience in still photography.

36. The United States celebrate the birth of its independence every Fourth of July.

37. The city of Toronto, in the Canadian Province of Ontario, has one of the world’s

safest, clean, and most efficient subway systems.

38. It is believed that people referred as “Vikings” reached to North America about

the year A.D. 1000.

39. Microwave cooking can be accurately described as the first absolutely new

method of prepare food since the discovery of fire.

40. When television was first introduced, the extent to that it would affect society

could not have been foreseen.

41. A desert area that has been without water for six years will still bloom when rain

will come.

42. The bigger of all nine planets in the solar system is Jupiter.

43. Whom do you think did it?

44. The book relying on most by writers is the dictionary.

45. Unlike another blood cells, white cells have a nucleus that enables them to divide

and reproduce.

46. If you were me, will you attend John’s wedding ceremony?

47. President Andrew Jackson was a controversial figure in his own day and is one

ever since.

48. Heating to 100℃, water turns into steam.

49. It is difficult for these sentences to translate into Chinese.

50. I have a lot of things to be done today.

51. The boy stood up to be seeing more clearly.

52. Not known what to do, the boy telephoned his teacher.

53. The letter needs being typed at once.

54. The man hated telling what to do.

55. She found her jewels missed.

56. I need a piece of paper to write.

57. Looking forward to the final bell, the books were put into the bags by the students.

58. Captured during the robbery, the police questioned the suspect for hours.

59. The teacher explained to the students that light traveled faster than sound.

60. The book hasn’t returned yet.

61. The factory had been built three years ago.

62. He has gone to Beijing twice.

63. My pen is written smoothly.

64. The phone was ringing while he was reading a book.

65. The old fisherman has died for 2 years.

66. Fifty dollars seem too much for this sweater.

67. The president together with several assistants are here.

68. Physics are fascinating but difficult.

69. My computer is much more expensive than you.

70. Mrs. Stone baked a birthday cake to her son.

71. He is very strong; he can work for the other hour.

72. She hurried back because she didn’t know that the meeting was put off.

73. I know George well. I have been knowing him for 5 years.

74. The affairs have turned out differently from what he expects.

75. Of all the books he ever wrote, this is the best.

76. He has once been bitten by a dog during his childhood, and since then, he has

never dared to come near a dog.

77. Although a great number of houses in that area are still in need of repair, there

have been improvement in the facilities.

78. The teacher assigned us 40 pages to read them before class.

79. Despite the temporary difficulties, the manager prefers increasing the output to

decrease it.

80. The story having been told by Bob was interesting.

81. The weather was bad, we decided to postpone our outing.

82. This college is the first one to set up in our city.

83. How did it come after that you made a lot of mistakes in your homework?

84. The wounded soldier fainted and it was at least half an hours before he came off.

85. After the death of their parents, the sisters got in well and never quarreled.

86. Hello! Is this 2014545? Please put me across to Mr. Brown.

87. I promise to look in the matter as soon as I get back to the head office.

88. It is when I am alone with my books in my little room which I feel most

comfortable.

89. Ann was about to run to catch the train as she suddenly stopped to see if the ticket

was in her purse.

90. The hotel he advised me to go was situated near the sea.

91. You did rather well in your exam, but Sue did rather badly.

92. No sooner had we sat down when we found it was time to go.

93. Six companies have signed an agreement they should share the costs of research

and development.

94. She wanted to do more for you; she certainly couldn’t do least.

95. Although both of them are trying to get the scholarship, Iris has the highest

grades.

96. If we find a joke funny or not largely depends on how we have been brought up.

97. The quicker we get there, the soon you will be able to relax.

98. It is easy for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter

into the Kingdom of God (天国).

99. This is embarrassing not being able to understand what people say to you.

100. I didn’t get much sleep last night because the people next door had had a noisy

party.