1. My hobbies are reading a book, taking photographs and going for walks in the park.

reading a bookreading books (because C&D is purals)

2. I can’t be visiting my mother at the nursing home as usual today as I’ll be tied up in a series of
meetings until late this evening.
Cant be visitingwont be visiting (wrong use of modal auxiliary in future continuous tense)
3. He is almost always late to the office, although it is not surprising he got a bad appraisal at the
end of year.
Although so
4. Neither his family or his colleagues know where John is but everyone is worried that
something bad has happened to him
ornor
5. The neighbours complained because the baby was crying hardly throughout the night
hardlyhard

6. I haven’t applied to the university also, but I will do so once my

exams are over.
alsoyet (use yet in negative sentences to say that something has
not happened up to the present time , although it probably will
happen
7. If you don’t have some objections to nominating Peter for the
Head Prefect’s post, we shall go ahead with our recommendation.|
someany (any for negative)
8. We can’t allow the staff to hear about the latest development, so I
trust that we can keep it between the three of us.
betweenamong *between is for two only
9. I live on 18, Scott Road in Amnesty Gardens, a quiet residential
enclave at the periphery of the city centre.
onat *at is use for exact addresses
10. The caretakers will lock the front gates if we arrive later than
7.30 pm, so we should leave here no later than 7 pm.
will lock will have locked
11. In spite of he had food poisoning, Jinn went in to the
office anyway.
in spite of(use precedes 之前 nouns or pronouns)although and
even (use precedes subject and verb)

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