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HANDOUT 4. There are ten extra appearances of
the
in the following text. Underline
them.
The word processor and the calculator are without a shadow of doubt here to
stay, and in the many respects our lives are the much richer for them. But the
teachers and other academics are claiming that we are now starting to
feel the
first significant wave of their effects on a generation of the users. It seems
nobody under the age of 20 can spell or add up any more. Even several
professors at leading universities have commented on
the detrimental effect the
digital revolution has had on the most intelligent young minds in the country.
The problem, evidently, lies with the automatic spellcheck now widely available
on the word processing software. Professor John Silver of the Sydney University.
HANDOUT 1. Underline the correct word or phrase in each sentence.
a) Richard and
I have never really hit
it/ourselves
off.
b) The manager promised to look into
my request/the matter.
c) I am afraid I don't hold with
this kind of thing/people like you.
d) Hang on to the tickets,
they might fall/we'll need them later.
e) The team couldn't keep up
the pressure/the score
in the second half.
f) This'll go off unless you
put it in the fridge/close the window.
g) I think
the second paragraph/a great opportunity
has been missed out.
h) Most of the meeting was given over
in the end/to Tom's report.
i) Stephen eventually
confessed up/owned up
to
sixteen murders,
j) Something odd is going on
behind my back/tomorrow afternoon.
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