What does she want

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• What does she want!?
• Dear Jack I want a man who knows what love is
  all about you are generous kind and thoughtful
  people who are not like you admit to being
  useless and inferior you have ruined me for other
  men I yearn for you I have no feelings whatsoever
  when were apart I can be forever happy will you
  let me be yours Jill

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Dear Jack

• Dear Jack,
• I want a man who knows what love is all about.
  You are generous, kind and thoughtful. People who
  are not like you admit to being useless and
  inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I
  yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when
  were apart. I can be forever happy. Will you let
  me be yours? Jill
• Dear Jack,
• I want a man who knows what love is. All
  about you are generous, kind and thoughtful
  people who are not like you. Admit to being
  useless and inferior! You have ruined me for
  other men I yearn. For you, I have no feelings
  whatsoever. When were apart I can be forever
  happy. Will you let me be? Yours, Jill

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Read through the following extract from a
students piece of writing and identify/correct
the mistakes.

• My name is Luis Gonzalez, and I come from mexico.
  I born
• in 1951 in one small village outside mexico city.
  When I
• was six years I went to the nursery school, and I
  enjoyed it
• very much. When I was eleven Ive moved to
  Brasil,
• because my father is diplomat, so my all life I
  live in
• differents countries. After school, I was for
  four years in a
• business college, and I got a degree in business
• administration. I working for a company that
  products small
• calculator. Its a good work, and Im very
  interesting for
• computors. I want to learn english because my
  father and
• I will start our own business in America soon.

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ERROR CORRECTION

• ED MURROW
• 01. Ed Murrow was one of the fewer genuine giants
  in the history of broadcasting. In Britain,
• 02. he is remembered for broadcasts which bring
  home to the American people the horror
• 03. of the London Blitz. In the United States,
  his reputation rests upon a series of document-
• 04. aries, not the less of which was the one in
  which he destroyed Senator McCarthy. It
• 05. was a hatchet-job from whom McCarthyism never
  recovered. Murrow's bravery, physical
• 06. as well as moral, was unquestioned.
  Colleagues would refuse to be driving by him. He
• 07. was a best-rate poker player. He was offered
  the job of Director-General of the
• 08. BBC. What happened to Murrow? By 1958, he
  seemed to see which television was
• 09. going, and where it would take him. It is, he
  said, "being used to distract, delude,
• 10. amuse and insulate us. This could be a most
  exciting and fruitful method of communic-
• 11. ation still devised, but it is in the hands
  of timid and avaricious men and the public
• 12. appeared incredibly apathetic. "

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ERROR CORRECTION Answers

• 01. few (fewer is used for comparisons fewer...
  than...)02. brought (narrative past tense
  required)03. correct04. least (not the least
  the best)05. which (who, whom with
  people)06. driven ( passive)07. first-rate
  (standard phrase)08. where09. correct10.
  the (if you are the best, you are the only one,
  and therefore definite the, NOT a)11.
  yet12. appear (present tense required)