6 questions · timed · auto-graded
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| I would be away until five years, and | ||
| at her age one could never tell. But my grandmother could. She was not even sentimentalist. She came to | ||
| left me at the railway station but | ||
| did not talk and show any emotion. |
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| until | for |
| sentimentalist | sentimental |
| left | leave |
| and | or |
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| This made her unhappy. She could not help me on my lessons. She | ||
| did not believed in the things | ||
| they teach at the English school | ||
| and was distressed that there was no teaching about God and scriptures. One day I announced that we were being given musical lessons. |
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| She was so terribly older that she | ||
| could not have grew older and | ||
| had stayed at the same age over | ||
| twenty years. She could never have been prettier; but she was always beautiful. |
| Error | Correction |
| older | old |
| grew | grown |
| over | for |
| prettier | pretty |
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| I listened therefore I loved her | ||
| voice but never bothered to learn it. Then she would fetch my wood | ||
| slate where she had already | ||
| washed and plastered with yellow chalk, a tiny earthly ink-pot and a red pen, tie them all in a bundle. |
| Error | Correction |
| therefore | because |
| wood | wooden |
| where | which |
| earthly | earthen |
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| As we shared the same room, | ||
| my grandmother no longer comes to school with me. I | ||
| used to go to an English school in a motor-bus. There were no dogs in the streets and she takes to feeding sparrows | ||
| in the courtyard over our city house. |
| Error | Correction |
| As | Although |
| comes | came |
| takes | took |
| over | of |
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| My grandfather’s portrait hangs | ||
| above the mantelpiece over the | ||
| the drawing room. He wore a bigger | ||
| turban and loose-fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the good part of his chest. |
| Error | Correction |
| hangs | hung |
| over | in |
| bigger | big |
| good | best |