Advanced Reading Exercise
Editing - Extra Word Exercise 8
For each sentence, find the word that doesn't belong and write it into the box.
e.g. I didn't want to study any longer but my mother made me to continue for another hour.
1. To get there, I had been taken the train from London to Sheffield and arrived just in time to see her leaving the platform with her husband.
2. If you have got any new the books, could you lend me one for the weekend?
3. You don't have to go a far away to feel homesick. I learnt that last year at college.
4. I'm not sure that heater is working very well. Do you feel like any heat from it at all?
5. The restaurants they are very elegant in this part of town and you will pay a lot of money for even a very simple meal.
6. The second gunfighter stood still at the end of the street. The sheriff, without holding a gun, felt in great danger.
7. This old church is more seventy five years old and it now needs vital repair work to be done as soon as possible.
8. The local area people don't want to see another huge shopping center built so are protesting against its imminent construction.
