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Correct the Sentence Exercise: A Simple Way to Improve Your Writing. Part 12

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1101 You______very regularly, Michael. (not/write)
1102 Indeed, I have said so much on the other side, that I may now have some difficulty in proving that, while defending self-love, I______you. (not/defend)
1103 I______ill in an… institution. (lie)
1104 In any case, I______to thin air; nor, indeed to this new friend of ours only. (not/talk)
1105 ______what I spoke to you about last night? (you/think over/?)
1106 I’ll tell you what I . (think)
1107 They______for the last month. (simmer)
1108  ! (with what a sadness/I/read/?)
1109 This business______for three months nearly. (go on)
1110 I hope he______poison in your ear, Miss Honeywood; he looks rather guilty. (not/pour)
1111 Our brighter hours,______a network of agonizing remembrances for this day of bereavement? (they/only/weave/?)
1112 But I , Court Godmother; I______to the swallows. (not/mop) (listen)
1113 I______for you some time. (wait)
1114 You______your word, Major Mallett. (not/keep)
1115 ______wild in London and New York about your last comedy, and isn’t your portrait in the photographers’ windows everywhere? (we all/not/go/?)
1116 Why, I can’t catch even one glimpse of red and yellow damask, not one flutter of gold fringe;______lessons in good taste? (the parvenus/take/?)
1117 No; I , but I have misgivings. (not/dream)
1118 ______at you so? (why/Steve/stare/?)
1119 ______in very different ears from ours-in lovely ears? (the bird/not/whisper/?)
1120 I______her for some time. (attend)
1121 I______this day for weeks. (look forward to)
1122 You______from a pretty girl. (run away)
1123 If we can get it from that shed in which you say it is, we can prove that you . (not/dream)
1124 ______yourself out to be me? (you/give/?)
1125 Lobsters______so free this year, I hear; and there’s another company started canning them. (not/run)
1126 I______my eye on you. (keep)
1127 ______that little book I gave you? (you/read/?)
1128 We______in mere desperation. (not/fight)
1129 It’s what we______for. (wait)
1130 You______much of these things. (not/think)
1131 I______at them this half-hour. (laugh)
1132 ______for it for? (what the deuce/I/stand/?)
1133 I______to your mother about it. (talk)
1134 I______this matter for some years, and write without prejudice, merely setting down what I believe to be the truth. (study)
1135 ______his time, then, all these years? (he/just/waste/?)
1136 They______every day for a month. (rehearse)
1137 You know perfectly well Timothy______you to marry him since he was nine-a child of that age doesn’t think of marriage. (not/ask)
1138 I have been so wearied and exhausted of late that I have for months doubted whether I______time and labour for nothing. (not/throw away)
1139 This is the chance I______for. (hope)
1140 You______them in from the top? (not/push)
1141 He______for me for the last hour. (call)
1142 Only, you see, it______yet for the hundredth part of a second. (not/fall)
1143 ______with that young lover of hers, or refusing him? (she/quarrel/?)
1144 Since my telegram No. of this morning matters______so smoothly. (not/go)
1145 I______for you for a month. (wish)
1146 ______her to theatres, and parties, and that kind of thing? (you/not/take/?)
1147 Hello, Stepan Ilyich,______yourself? (where the dickens/you/keep/?)
1148 ______about the meaning of the Gilpin will? (all friendship/not/speculate/?)
1149 I believe he______into the matter. (inquire)
1150 I______in my sleep, either. (not/walk)
1151 Do you think I______about it? (lie)
1152 ______about your brother? (all the world/not/speak/?)
1153 I______you some time now. (observe)
1154 I______for him all the evening. (listen)
1155 ______to you about me? (anyone/talk/?)
1156 Have the rats eaten any of the little chickens, or______you for breaking some eggs? (your mother/scold/?)
1157 But I______about it all day. (think)
1158 I______to the back of this outfit for the last eight miles just for fun, or exercise either. (not/hang)
1159 ______on the course of true love by letting you go there so often? (I/help/?)
1160 Sir Donald Randolph______double. (not/play)
1161 You______your mind with the right ideas. (not/fill up)
1162 I______for you this half hour. (wait)
1163 He______for us for days. (hunt)
1164 Oh, all these months,______Lewis Rand, believing him concerned with that man, suspecting him of-of-of treason? (you/mistrust/?)
1165 I______underground all my life, to find a volcano at last, and then let it be choked up after a single eruption. (not/rumble)
1166 ______to get rid of me? (what schemes/you/hatch/?)
1167 You______him a bath at such a time as this, have you? (not/give)
1168 I______of you night and day. (think)
1169 ______again in the tule marshes, or are you upset with commissary whisky? (you/sleep/?)
1170 We______horror, nor are we feeling a dreadful suspense. (not/feel)
1171 We______the whole of this day. (ascend)
1172 ______a viper in my bosom? (I/nurse/?)
1173 ______at cricket in the room, eh? (Tom/play/?)
1174 Since my telegram No. of this morning, matters______so smoothly. (not/go)
1175 ______stories about her of any sort? (anybody/circulate/?)
1176 We , but we . (fight) (not/quarrel)
1177 We______of dress as an individual matter. (talk)
1178 He______a high tree for them. (climb)
1179 But say, I wonder why the daughter______some sort of a guard over the poor demented creature? (not/keep)
1180 Your whole conduct since, especially the interview with Philip, has shown that your anger , and that you have learnt to subdue it. (not/abide)
1181 It______all day. (blow/and/drift)
1182 Well, Victoria,______yourself? (where/you/keep/?)
1183 The transaction______to Hoyle. (not/accord)
1184 Well, and what’s the matter with Captain;______him? (the Irishman/ride/?)
1185 Then you______to meet her again on my account? (not/arrange)
1186 During the last nine days there has only been one, the day we found the tent, when it______during all or part of the day. (not/drift)
1187 I’m quite satisfied that we______about things in the right way. (not/go)
1188 I______it a long while. (smell)
1189 Ralph, you are getting morbid-and you______all day. (not/shoot)
1190 ______for this many a year in quiet, and don’t the dandelions and buttercups look as yellow over me as over the best-looking neighbor I have in the dormitory? (I/not/sleep/?)
1191 ______about to let those little fingers be going instead of her feet? (what/yon lads/think/?)
1192 I______about you for a dozen years, thinking about you, wondering about you-wondering where you were, what you were doing, how you looked. (dream)
1193 So pray consider the kill-joy proposition as entirely retracted, and give us something of yourselves only on simple black-letter days, when the Herald Angels______expectations early in the morning. (not/raise)
1194 The risings______for some time. (go on)
1195 We______of you every day. (speak)
1196 It______for me for eighteen years. (wait)
1197 I______first this one and then that, but no one will have me. (ask)
1198 I______so much about it. (think)
1199 The children______their nonsense to you! (not/talk)
1200 This is the place we______with such toil and labour. (seek)

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1101 You haven’t been writing very regularly, Michael. (not/write)
1102 Indeed, I have said so much on the other side, that I may now have some difficulty in proving that, while defending self-love, I haven’t been defending you. (not/defend)
1103 I have been lying ill in an… institution. (lie)
1104 In any case, I haven’t been talking to thin air; nor, indeed to this new friend of ours only. (not/talk)
1105  Have you been thinking over what I spoke to you about last night? (you/think over/?)
1106 I’ll tell you what I have been thinking. (think)
1107 They have been simmering for the last month. (simmer)
1108  With what a sadness have I been reading! (with what a sadness/I/read/?)
1109 This business has been going on for three months nearly. (go on)
1110 I hope he hasn’t been pouring poison in your ear, Miss Honeywood; he looks rather guilty. (not/pour)
1111 Our brighter hours, have they only been weaving a network of agonizing remembrances for this day of bereavement? (they/only/weave/?)
1112 But I haven’t been moping, Court Godmother; I have been listening to the swallows. (not/mop) (listen)
1113 I have been waiting for you some time. (wait)
1114 You haven’t been keeping your word, Major Mallett. (not/keep)
1115  Haven’t we all been going wild in London and New York about your last comedy, and isn’t your portrait in the photographers’ windows everywhere? (we all/not/go/?)
1116 Why, I can’t catch even one glimpse of red and yellow damask, not one flutter of gold fringe; have the parvenus been taking lessons in good taste? (the parvenus/take/?)
1117 No; I haven’t been dreaming, but I have misgivings. (not/dream)
1118  Why has Steve been staring at you so? (why/Steve/stare/?)
1119  Hasn’t the bird been whispering in very different ears from ours-in lovely ears? (the bird/not/whisper/?)
1120 I have been attending her for some time. (attend)
1121 I have been looking forward to this day for weeks. (look forward to)
1122 You have been running away from a pretty girl. (run away)
1123 If we can get it from that shed in which you say it is, we can prove that you haven’t been dreaming. (not/dream)
1124  Have you been giving yourself out to be me? (you/give/?)
1125 Lobsters haven’t been running so free this year, I hear; and there’s another company started canning them. (not/run)
1126 I have been keeping my eye on you. (keep)
1127  Have you been reading that little book I gave you? (you/read/?)
1128 We haven’t been fighting in mere desperation. (not/fight)
1129 It’s what we have been waiting for. (wait)
1130 You haven’t been thinking much of these things. (not/think)
1131 I have been laughing at them this half-hour. (laugh)
1132  What the deuce have I been standing for it for? (what the deuce/I/stand/?)
1133 I have been talking to your mother about it. (talk)
1134 I have been studying this matter for some years, and write without prejudice, merely setting down what I believe to be the truth. (study)
1135  Has he just been wasting his time, then, all these years? (he/just/waste/?)
1136 They have been rehearsing every day for a month. (rehearse)
1137 You know perfectly well Timothy hasn’t been asking you to marry him since he was nine-a child of that age doesn’t think of marriage. (not/ask)
1138 I have been so wearied and exhausted of late that I have for months doubted whether I haven’t been throwing away time and labour for nothing. (not/throw away)
1139 This is the chance I have been hoping for. (hope)
1140 You haven’t been pushing them in from the top? (not/push)
1141 He has been calling for me for the last hour. (call)
1142 Only, you see, it hasn’t been falling yet for the hundredth part of a second. (not/fall)
1143 Has she been quarrelling with that young lover of hers, or refusing him? (she/quarrel/?)
1144 Since my telegram No. of this morning matters haven’t been going so smoothly. (not/go)
1145 I have been wishing for you for a month. (wish)
1146  Haven’t you been taking her to theatres, and parties, and that kind of thing? (you/not/take/?)
1147 Hello, Stepan Ilyich, where the dickens have you been keeping yourself? (where the dickens/you/keep/?)
1148  Hasn’t all friendship been speculating about the meaning of the Gilpin will? (all friendship/not/speculate/?)
1149 I believe he has been inquiring into the matter. (inquire)
1150 I haven’t been walking in my sleep, either. (not/walk)
1151 Do you think I have been lying about it? (lie)
1152  Hasn’t all the world been speaking about your brother? (all the world/not/speak/?)
1153 I have been observing you some time now. (observe)
1154 I have been listening for him all the evening. (listen)
1155  Has anyone been talking to you about me? (anyone/talk/?)
1156 Have the rats eaten any of the little chickens, or has your mother been scolding you for breaking some eggs? (your mother/scold/?)
1157 But I have been thinking about it all day. (think)
1158 I haven’t been hanging to the back of this outfit for the last eight miles just for fun, or exercise either. (not/hang)
1159  Have I been helping on the course of true love by letting you go there so often? (I/help/?)
1160 Sir Donald Randolph hasn’t been playing double. (not/play)
1161 You haven’t been filling up your mind with the right ideas. (not/fill up)
1162 I have been waiting for you this half hour. (wait)
1163 He has been hunting for us for days. (hunt)
1164 Oh, all these months, have you been mistrusting Lewis Rand, believing him concerned with that man, suspecting him of-of-of treason? (you/mistrust/?)
1165 I haven’t been rumbling underground all my life, to find a volcano at last, and then let it be choked up after a single eruption. (not/rumble)
1166  What schemes have you been hatching to get rid of me? (what schemes/you/hatch/?)
1167 You haven’t been giving him a bath at such a time as this, have you? (not/give)
1168 I have been thinking of you night and day. (think)
1169  Have you been sleeping again in the tule marshes, or are you upset with commissary whisky? (you/sleep/?)
1170 We haven’t been feeling horror, nor are we feeling a dreadful suspense. (not/feel)
1171 We have been ascending the whole of this day. (ascend)
1172  Have I been nursing a viper in my bosom? (I/nurse/?)
1173 Has Tom been playing at cricket in the room, eh? (Tom/play/?)
1174 Since my telegram No. of this morning, matters haven’t been going so smoothly. (not/go)
1175  Has anybody been circulating stories about her of any sort? (anybody/circulate/?)
1176 We have been fighting, but we haven’t been quarrelling. (fight) (not/quarrel)
1177 We have been talking of dress as an individual matter. (talk)
1178 He has been climbing a high tree for them. (climb)
1179 But say, I wonder why the daughter hasn’t been keeping some sort of a guard over the poor demented creature? (not/keep)
1180 Your whole conduct since, especially the interview with Philip, has shown that your anger hasn’t been abiding, and that you have learnt to subdue it. (not/abide)
1181 It has been blowing and drifting all day. (blow/and/drift)
1182 Well, Victoria, where have you been keeping yourself? (where/you/keep/?)
1183 The transaction hasn’t been according to Hoyle. (not/accord)
1184 Well, and what’s the matter with Captain; has the Irishman been riding him? (the Irishman/ride/?)
1185 Then you haven’t been arranging to meet her again on my account? (not/arrange)
1186 During the last nine days there has only been one, the day we found the tent, when it hasn’t been drifting during all or part of the day. (not/drift)
1187 I’m quite satisfied that we haven’t been going about things in the right way. (not/go)
1188 I have been smelling it a long while. (smell)
1189 Ralph, you are getting morbid-and you haven’t been shooting all day. (not/shoot)
1190  Haven’t I been sleeping for this many a year in quiet, and don’t the dandelions and buttercups look as yellow over me as over the best-looking neighbor I have in the dormitory? (I/not/sleep/?)
1191 What have yon lads been thinking about to let those little fingers be going instead of her feet? (what/yon lads/think/?)
1192 I have been dreaming about you for a dozen years, thinking about you, wondering about you-wondering where you were, what you were doing, how you looked. (dream)
1193 So pray consider the kill-joy proposition as entirely retracted, and give us something of yourselves only on simple black-letter days, when the Herald Angels haven’t been raising expectations early in the morning. (not/raise)
1194 The risings have been going on for some time. (go on)
1195 We have been speaking of you every day. (speak)
1196 It has been waiting for me for eighteen years. (wait)
1197 I have been asking first this one and then that, but no one will have me. (ask)
1198 I have been thinking so much about it. (think)
1199 The children haven’t been talking their nonsense to you! (not/talk)
1200 This is the place we have been seeking with such toil and labour. (seek)

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