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Masanori Takaoka Posted 11 years ago
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Could you point out mistakes if any?

1. However much I tried, I could not solve this question.
2. One out of ten students in our school are a returnee.
3. According to the evening news, Tokyo had the heaviest rainfall in ten years.
4. It is not unusual in this village that two families share same house.
5. My grandfather would say that I should study hard.
6. With a little more effort, he could have gotten an A in English.
7. I gave up to persuade him to continue with study.
8. In today’s world life, everyone is easy to feel a lot of stress.
9. It is clever of the monkeys to take turns taking a bath.
10. Farming areas in Eastsouth Asia look somewhat similar to that of Japan.
11. My grandfather who used to work for JR is punctual.
12. Don’t leave the light on. You’re wasting electricity.
13. Thanks to cloning technology, scientists will probably replicate even a dinosaur in the near future.
14. When I heard an alarm clock rang, I jumped out of my bed.
15. In these days, many children have own computers.
  

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One out of ten students in our school is a returnee.

  • One out of ten students in our school is a returnee.
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One out of ten students in our school is a returnee.
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1. However much I tried, I could not solve this question.
2. One out of ten students in our school are is a returnee.
3. According to the evening news, Tokyo had [the / its] heaviest rainfall in ten years (today).
4. It is not unusual in this village that two fami
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1. Replace "solve" with "answer." You don't solve questions, you answer them. You solve: problems, puzzles, mysteries, riddles, etc.
2. Replace "are" with "is." "One" is singular.
3. Okay.
4. This is grammatical, but in the US you'd more likely hear: "...for two families to share..."
5. This is grammatical, but the context has to fit. For example: "When my grandfath

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