A wonderful housewife
Read about Mrs Chow. Each line has an error - it may be a grammatical or other kind of mistake such as a missing or an extra word. Try to correct the mistakes. Do you know anyone like Mrs Chow?
1. Mrs Chow raises at 6am every day to get
2. breakfast ready to her husband and two children.
3. They always find clean, perfectly ironed cloths
4. ready for them. It's a miracle Mrs Chow finds the time
5. to do the things she do - and she does them
6. so well! She is a excellent cook, her dumplings are
7. mouthwatering and her crabs are very delicious that
8. she ought to selling her recipe to a famous restaurant.
9. She does all the cleaning and laundries - well, the
10. children do some housework, but they oftenly make
11. more of a mess than they are actually clear up. She can
12. turn her hand to almost thing: sewing, watch repair,
13. electrical work, house painting - you name its and Mrs
14. Chow will try it. It's all part her daily mission in
15. life: to keep her family together, comfortably and
16. happy. Of course, we all need more material things
17. and the Mrs Chow is also a great listener. She is
18. always willing to here about her children's
19. problems and their teenage heartbrokes, or to
20. lend sympathetic ear to her husband's complaints.
21. She got cross or scolds family members only
22. once in a pink moon. She prefers to look for
23. practical solutions to difficulties. Where theirs a
24. will, there's a way, she say - though she does know
25. that some time all we need is a big hug and some
26. words of consolation or encouragements. Mrs Chow
27. doesn't look very glamorous. How can she too when
28. she has a very tightly budget and won't spend anything
29. on herself? A tutorial class for one of the childrens
30. or a little treatment for all the family at dinner
31. means more to her than new blouse or smart hairstyle.
32. Mrs Chow has a part-time in a restaurant
33. washing dishes. It's tiring but she wants the extra
34. dollars and she quiet enjoys the conversations
35. in the kitchen. Co-workers are almost all mothers
36. on the same problems as she faces: getting the
37. children a decent of education, finding the
38. money at their school books and clothes,
39. worrying about his husband's job and sometimes
40. thinking about what would happen as they all
41. get older. Mrs Chow don't rest much, but
42. she just enjoys her soap operas, and she plays the
43. mahjong very well - but as quite infrequently,
44. and not for money. Mrs Chow's role clear: she's
45. a dedicate wife and mother, a wonderful housewife.
Answers:
1. rises, to raise something
2. breakfast for, for the benefit of
3. clothes, cloths are pieces of material
4. delete out, not finding out information here
5. does, she does
6. an excellent cook, vowel
7. so delicious, so ... that
8. sell, ought + to-infinitive
9. laundry, uncountable
10. often, correct form
11. delete are, unnecessary
12. almost anything
13. you name it, idiom
14. part of, necessary preposition
15. comfortable, adjective like happy
16. more than, sense
17. delete the, not used with title Mrs etc
18. hear, spelling
19. heartbreaks, correct form
20. lend a sympathetic ear, idiom
21. gets, general present tense
22. once in a blue moon, idiom
23. there's, spelling
24. says, agreement
25. sometimes
26. encouragement - uncountable
27. delete too, makes no sense
28. tight, adjective
29. children, correct plural form
30. treat, a special enjoyment
31. a new blouse, article needed
32. a part-time job, noun needed
33. tiring, but, sense
34. quite, spelling
35. Her co-workers, unclear without it
36. with the same problems
37. a decent education, adjective + noun
38. money for, for a purpose
39. her, Mrs Chow's
40. will happen, simple future
41. does not/doesn't, agreement
42. plays mahjong, article not used with games
43. delete as, makes no sense
44. role is clear, verb needed
45. dedicated, adjective from past participle