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Vincent Teo Posted 17 years ago
Please help me to check it again:
(i) Long ago, there were many cats. The mice thought of / about ways to escape from the cat.
(ii) Long ago, there lived a group of mice in a small mouse hole of a house. They wanted to discuss about the ways to escape from the scary cat.
(iii) There lived a group of mice / There lived four fat mice (in a small hole). / There was a group of mice who lived in a hole.
(iv) One day, the head mouse gathered the other mice / all the mice for a meeting at the hole.
(v) The mice gathered together and decided to have a meeting. / They gathered at the hole and started meeting.
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Please help me to check it again:
(i) Long ago, there were many cats. The mice thought of / about ways to escape from the cat.
(ii) Long ago, there lived a group of mice in a small mouse hole of a house. They wanted to discuss about the ways to escape from the scary cat.
(iii) There lived a group of mice / There lived four fat mice (in a small hole). / There was a group of mice who lived in a hole.
(iv) One day, the head mouse gathered the other mice / all the mice for a meeting at the hole.
(v) The mice gathered together and decided to have a meeting. / They gathered at the hole and started meeting.
Top answer
(i) Long ago, there were many cats. ] The mice thought of / about ways [ "thought of" means they invented ways to actually achieve this. "thought about" means they tried to come up with ways to achieve this and may or may not have succeeded] to escape from the cat.
- (i) Long ago, there were many cats.
- ] The mice thought of / about ways [ "thought of" means they invented ways to actually achieve this.
- "thought about" means they tried to come up with ways to achieve this and may or may not have succeeded] to escape from the cat.
- (ii) Long ago, there lived a group of mice in a small mouse-hole [I'm not entirely sure if this should be hyphenated, two words, or one word, but hyphenated looks best to me] in a house.
- They wanted to discuss about the ways [you do not "discuss about something", you just "discuss something"] to escape from the scary cat.
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(i) Long ago, there were many cats. [OK I guess, but as an opening sentence it seems a little bald to me, and lacking in information about the circumstances in which these cats existed.] The mice thought of / about ways ["thought of" means they invented ways to actually achieve this. "thought about" means they tried to come up with ways to achieve this and may or may not hav
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