Find a grammar error and rewrite the sentence. Ten corrections with explanations and targeted review.
Rewrite the complete sentence using correct grammar. Keep the intended meaning and the original wording wherever possible; do not paraphrase freely. Check the explanation after each answer. Supported alternative forms are accepted.
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Practice my mistakesBack to my daily planCorrect the grammar. Keep the meaning and change only what is necessary.
Sentence to correct: By Friday, I'll have finish the report.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: By Friday, I'll have finished the report.
Use the participle finished after will have.
Correct the grammar. Keep the meaning and change only what is necessary.
Sentence to correct: He must have went home.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: He must have gone home.
Modal + have takes the past participle gone.
Correct the grammar. Keep the meaning and change only what is necessary.
Sentence to correct: She is used to work alone.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: She is used to working alone.
Be used to describes familiarity and is followed by -ing.
Correct the grammar. Keep the meaning and change only what is necessary.
Sentence to correct: I had my car repair yesterday.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: I had my car repaired yesterday.
Have + object + past participle expresses an arranged repair.
Correct the grammar. Keep the meaning and change only what is necessary.
Sentence to correct: He suggested to take a taxi.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: He suggested taking a taxi.
Suggest can take -ing; it does not take a direct to-infinitive.
Correct the grammar. Keep the meaning and change only what is necessary.
Sentence to correct: I'd rather to stay here.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: I'd rather stay here.
Would rather takes a bare infinitive.
Correct the grammar. Keep the meaning and change only what is necessary.
Sentence to correct: Do you know where is the station?
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Do you know where the station is?
The embedded question uses subject before be.
Correct the grammar. Keep the meaning and change only what is necessary.
Sentence to correct: The more you read, the best you understand.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: The more you read, the better you understand.
Use a comparative, not a superlative, in the the ... the ... pattern.
Correct the grammar. Keep the meaning and change only what is necessary.
Sentence to correct: She whispered in order not wake him.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: She whispered in order not to wake him.
The negative purpose pattern is in order not to + verb.
Correct the grammar. Keep the meaning and change only what is necessary.
Sentence to correct: This soup tastes wonderfully.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: This soup tastes wonderful.
Taste is a linking verb here, so it takes an adjective describing the soup.
By Friday, I'll have finish the report.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: By Friday, I'll have finished the report.
Use the participle finished after will have.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: He must have gone home.
Modal + have takes the past participle gone.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: She is used to working alone.
Be used to describes familiarity and is followed by -ing.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: I had my car repaired yesterday.
Have + object + past participle expresses an arranged repair.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: He suggested taking a taxi.
Suggest can take -ing; it does not take a direct to-infinitive.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: I'd rather stay here.
Would rather takes a bare infinitive.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: Do you know where the station is?
The embedded question uses subject before be.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: The more you read, the better you understand.
Use a comparative, not a superlative, in the the ... the ... pattern.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: She whispered in order not to wake him.
The negative purpose pattern is in order not to + verb.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: This soup tastes wonderful.
Taste is a linking verb here, so it takes an adjective describing the soup.
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