SENTENCES FOR CORRECTION
The sentences in this excrcise are ‘genuine’ ones; every one of them was written at some time by a foreign
student learning English. The mistakes, therefore, are characteristic.)
1. I must go back with my mind to the first year of my existence but don’t think fot that I am an old woman.
2. It was worth to live to see a so beautiful sight.
3. The noise we did in laughing made the kitten fearful of us.
4. The children like cats and they are nearly in all their homes.
5. We were deprived from playing games for a week.
6. A fair amount of the scholars liked the class.
7. I visted a part of the Vosges mountains which possess a selection of splendid sceneries.
6. Truong Son Range is famous as well for the general sight you obtain from the top of its peak as for the
numerous little villages crouched in the wrinkles of its flanks.
9. The ascension of the mourialn was difilcult.
10. I felt like sitting in a railway carriage when these views passed before me.
11. Beause I am born in the north of Europe I sometimes am longing for the grey skies.
12. There the vegetation was poorly.
13. Ho Chi Minh City has such a tremendous traffic that I wonder there happen so few accidents.
14. The furniture are of oak and satin wood.
15. In winter the sun does not more shine so warm like in summer.
16. The English is accustomed to his open fire though the strong draught lets not burn popery the coal.
17. Who has been on a mountain immidst snow will never forget it.
18. The trains go with great precaution in the fog.
19. The fog is not well to breathe.
20. According to your knowledges will be your salary.
21. Bach Ma is the most healthiest part of Huê.
22. I will be please to receive your advices.
23. I have past the examination in French and German and can satisfactory write this languages.
24. We cannot pay you more than £150 a year according to the bad times.
25. I have always had an excellent health.
26. I am in London since half a year.
27. I have from I was twelve year old study English.

56. He drove the car so fastly he frightened them instead of let the run enjoy them.
57. He had a new furniture for the drawing-room.
58. Would you mind in future to take more pain with your work.
59. I am not very accustomed with the English language.
60. I can’t wear any more this suit.
61, I wrote to congratulate my friend who has just become engaged with a beautiful Londoner girl.
62. It is not easy, that one can imagine, to get use to livc in a foreign country.
63. Fog is everywhere, as well in the house than in the streets.
64. Many people complain to have never money.
65. He described the scene very well.
66. I always have liked to think on those days.
67. There is a great deal of mountains in Switzerland.
68. Many ships are to see on the river which at this place is wide over 300 yards.
69. In Huê are many Middle Age palaces.
70. You can hear the chiming of cows bells in the pasturages.
71. I have thought often what this word would signify.
72. Heaps of boxes were laying around me.
73. A trip by steamer which mostly are starting from Vienna will enjoy everybody.
74. Each person like the place where they are at home.
75. The sea was dark blue from the horizon till the shore.
76. After few minutes one hear the whistle.
77. I study carefully the passage what I read.
78. This town is notorious through its lovely scenery.
79. A bird in the hand is better as two in the bush.
80. I was so ill that when I would swallow anything it would cause me much pain; so the doctor regarded my
throat to see what was the matter. He then explained me the reason.
81. I am not enthusiasted by the statues in London.
82. The glacier put the glasses in the window.
83. They had central heating which I more prefer than an open fire.
84. There are in England the opposite customs as they are in use in my country.

forbidden to write of what is untrue.
112. I have many things to tell you but before all I can tell you I had a nice holiday.
113. It is to understand that up to now I have been busy.
114. I hope my letter will be for you from great interest.
115. In Trafalgar Square is a tall memory to Nelson.
116. You can study in the Kensington Museum the progress of modern tehnic.
117. How is to pronounce “chaos”?
118. Many a student are not able to make the progress they wish.
119. I listen to the speakers in the Hyde Park.
120. You like to receive often from your friends a letter.
121. Many people is unemployed because the manufactories are closed.
122. There are not so much people in Paris than in London.
123. English customs are quite different to French ones.
124. We were astonished by the many busses in London.
125. The policemen circulates the traffic.
126. There is not yet a long time that I came to London but I ant getting on alright.
127. I had the pleasure to hear Ngoc Tân sing.
128. The comedian made laugh the people many times.
129. We hope you shall have a good holiday, and bath in the sea every day.
130. England is surrounded of the sea and is quite different to the place I am coming from.
131. My friend want to leave in an english family if possible.
132. It has now rained during some days.
Can you correct and rephrase all these sentences?