Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting
1. Although our grandfather was old but he could help us.
| A. was | B. but | C. could | D. is |
2. Mrs. Green was cooking dinner but her daughter Susan was laying the table.
| A. was cooking | B. but | C. Susan | D. was laying |
3. My friends advised her to stop doing the housework because her old age.
| A. advised | B. doing | C. because | D. age |
4. He tried to explain, so she refused to listen.
| A. to explain | B. so | C. refused | D. to listen |
5. John didn’t go to work because of he was seriously ill.
| A. didn’t go | B. work | C. because of | D. seriously |
6. My friend was crazy although he was informed of the news of his mother’s death.
| A. crazy | B. although | C. informed | D. death |
7. Thunder is rarely heard beyond 15 miles because of temperature and wind vary at different heights in the region around a thunderstorm.
| A. is rarely heard | B. because of temperature | C. and wind | D. heights |
8. Despite of growing industrial activity, the majority of the American people continued to make their living from farming until the beginning of the twentieth century.
| A. Despite of | B. growing industrial | C. continued to make | D. from farming |
9. She turned down the radio so as to disturb the neighbors.
| A. turned | B. the | C. so as to | D. neighbors |
10. He couldn’t drive fast owing to the street was crowded and narrow.
| A. couldn’t | B. fast | C. owing to | D. narrow |
11. She said as she didn’t know what happened yesterday.
| A. said | B. as | C. didn’t know | D. happened |
12. In spite her severe pain, she tried to walk to the auditorium to attend the lecture.
| A. In spite | B. severe | C. to walk | D. to attend |
13. Friends advised her to stop doing the housework because her old age.
| A. her | B. to stop | C. housework | D. because |
14. No matter how they are brothers, they do not look alike.
| A. No matter how | B. brothers | C. do not | D. alike |
15. Rice plants grow well because the damp climate.
| A. plants | B. grow | C. because | D. damp |