Grammar

Auction
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1. There’s a huge variety of fruit and vegetables to
choose from and they taste delicious.
2. It’s easy to buy our food from the local supermar-
ket, so why go to the trouble of growing yourself
own?
3. You should not start with vegetables that are diffi-
cult to grow, so find out what grows well where you
live.
4. Food that you grow yourself is guaranteed to be
fresh.
5. If you’re fortunate enough to have a large garden,
or if there are community gardens in your neighbor-
hood, then growing your own are easy.
6. Have you ever felt anxious or depressed and tried to
make yourself feel better by consuming a sugary or
fatty snack? Don’t feel bad if you do as this is com-
mon.
7. Everyone knows that a healthy diet of fresh food
which is rich in vitamins and minerals and low in
sugar is good for us.
 8. To break bad eating habits,
pay attention to what and when you are eating.
9. When you find yourself saying, “I must have eaten
that,” think about how you could have dealt with the
real problem.
10. We all need to develop a healthy relationship with
food and resist the temptation to eat for comfort.
11. Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling her born to
enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries.
12. She had no gowns, no jewels, nothing. And she
loved nothing but that. She felt made for that. She
should have liked so much to please, to be envied, to
be charming, to be sought after.
13. “It annoys me not to have a single piece of jew-
elry, not a single ornament, nothing to put on. I shall
look poverty-stricken”
14. Madame Forestier did not open the case, as her
friend had so much feared. If she had detected the
substitution, what would she have thought, what
would she have said?
15. Madame Forestier, astonished to be familiarly ad-
dressed by this plain good-wife, did not recognize her
at all and stammered:
“But... Madame.. I do not know.... You should have
mistaken.”
Answer keys!
1. There’s a huge variety of fruit and vegetables to
choose from and they taste delicious.
1. There’s a huge variety of fruit and vegetables to
choose from and they taste delicious.
(correct)
2. It’s easy to buy our food from the local supermar-
ket, so why go to the trouble of growing yourself
own?
2. It’s easy to buy our food from the local supermar-
ket, so why go to the trouble of growing yourself
own?
(wrong!)
3. You should not start with vegetables that are diffi-
cult to grow, so find out what grows well where you
live.
3. You should not start with vegetables that are diffi-
cult to grow, so find out what grows well where you
live.
(correct)
4. Food that you grow yourself is guaranteed to be
fresh.
4. Food that you grow yourself is guaranteed to be
fresh.
(correct)
5. If you’re fortunate enough to have a large garden,
or if there are community gardens in your neighbor-
hood, then growing your own are easy.
5. If you’re fortunate enough to have a large garden,
or if there are community gardens in your neighbor-
hood, then growing your own are easy.
(wrong!)
6. Have you ever felt anxious or depressed and tried to
make yourself feel better by consuming a sugary or
fatty snack? Don’t feel bad if you do as this is com-
mon.
6. Have you ever felt anxious or depressed and tried to
make yourself feel better by consuming a sugary or
fatty snack? Don’t feel bad if you do as this is com-
mon.
(wrong!)
7. Everyone knows that a healthy diet of fresh food
which is rich in vitamins and minerals and low in
sugar is good for us.
7. Everyone knows that a healthy diet of fresh food
which is rich in vitamins and minerals and low in
sugar is good for us.
(correct)
 8. To break bad eating habits,
pay attention to what and when you are eating.
 8. To break bad eating habits,
pay attention to what and when you are eating.
(correct)
9. When you find yourself saying, “I must have eaten
that,” think about how you could have dealt with the
real problem.
9. When you find yourself saying, “I must have eaten
that,” think about how you could have dealt with the
real problem.
(wrong!)
10. We all need to develop a healthy relationship with
food and resist the temptation to eat for comfort.
10. We all need to develop a healthy relationship with
food and resist the temptation to eat for comfort.
(correct)
11. Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling her born to
enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries.
11. Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling her born to
enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries.
(wrong!)
12. She had no gowns, no jewels, nothing. And she
loved nothing but that. She felt made for that. She
should have liked so much to please, to be envied, to
be charming, to be sought after.
12. She had no gowns, no jewels, nothing. And she
loved nothing but that. She felt made for that. She
should have liked so much to please, to be envied, to
be charming, to be sought after.
(wrong!)
13. “It annoys me not to have a single piece of jew-
elry, not a single ornament, nothing to put on. I shall
look poverty-stricken”
13. “It annoys me not to have a single piece of jew-
elry, not a single ornament, nothing to put on. I shall
look poverty-stricken”
(correct)
14. Madame Forestier did not open the case, as her
friend had so much feared. If she had detected the
substitution, what would she have thought, what
would she have said?
14. Madame Forestier did not open the case, as her
friend had so much feared. If she had detected the
substitution, what would she have thought, what
would she have said?
(correct)
15. Madame Forestier, astonished to be familiarly ad-
dressed by this plain good-wife, did not recognize her
at all and stammered:
“But... Madame.. I do not know.... You should have
mistaken.”
15. Madame Forestier, astonished to be familiarly ad-
dressed by this plain good-wife, did not recognize her
at all and stammered:
“But... Madame.. I do not know.... You should have
mistaken.”
(wrong!)