not: approve of him to pay/in the exile/put out ideas/nervous/...

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Please correct the errors in thick, black letters:

1.Tom’s mother does not approve of him to pay his professor a visit without dressing formally.

  1. He lives in the excile but he keeps in touch with his countrymen at home.

  2. He has great determination, and I will put out his own ideas a hundred times if necessary, until he gets exactly what he wants.

4.Mr Wilson was not going to take the flour at the last symposium, but he did because the previous speaker got on his nervous.

  1. By the time George completed his Ph.D., his sister-in-law will have been managing her department for 20 years.

Should it be:

  1. of him to paying?
    2.in the exilation
    3?
  2. nerves
    5.has completed?, completes?

Thanks a lot :slight_smile:

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  1. him paying
  2. in exile
  3. I think ‘I’ is a typo there. put forth
  4. ‘flour’ is a typo for ‘floor’. nerves
  5. has completed
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Thank You Dear Beeesneees, could you please tell me one more thing:
I think 5th sentence we can write in two possibilities, one as above with your reply:
5a) By the time George has completed his Ph.D., his sister-in-law will have been managing her department for 20 years.

or:
5b) By the time George completed his Ph.D., his sister-in-law had been managing her department for 20 years.

analogically to: for example:

By this time the children went to school we had been living there for nearly 15 years.

What do you think? So the error can be : ‘completed’ or ‘will have been managing’, but how could I know which error the author of this sentence meant??

Thanks again.

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You are right - but the test sentence gives ‘will have been managing’, not ‘had been managing’.

The analogy is not the same.

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I meant the same analogy between these two sentences including Past Simple, and Past Present Continuous:
By the time George completed his Ph.D., his sister-in-law had been managing her department for 20 years.
and
By this time the children went to school we had been living there for nearly 15 years.

The original sentence which inludes an error is:
5. By the time George completed his Ph.D., his sister-in-law will have been managing her department for 20 years.
So if we look at it we find two possibilities of error, it could be ,completed’’ or ,will have been managing’’, so we receive 5a) or/and 5b), but how do we know which one the author meant? Do you understand me better? I think in the exam we can explain these two possibilities and our understaning…

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The original exercise, question 5, indicates that the mistake is with the first verb, not the second one.
In that sentence only ‘has completed’ works with ‘will have been’.

He hasn’t completed his degree yet. She hasn’t been managing the department for 20 years yet.

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[quote=“Beeesneees”]
:The original exercise, question 5, indicates that the mistake is with the first verb, not the second one.

  • How do you know that? I still see two possibilities…
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Dear Beeesneees, I 'd like to emphasise that it wasn’t given at first where the error is. If the author of this sentence indicated the error , so I would know which possibility is true.

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Who is deciding where the errors are then? I thought the words in bold were expected to be the errors.

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Of course the author of this sentence is deciding, but the reader must first indicate this error and then correct it. So, I’m the reader who noticed two possibilities of error and that’s why I see two possibilities of answer.

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Well, I think you found the right error.

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The correction: I found two possibilities of error.

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If the error is not clearly indicated then, yes. By the time you posted them here, it seemed that the error was indicated.

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Thank You Beeesneees. After indicating error by reader, he/she could check it in the key of author’s book.