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Old 08-Jul-2003, 17:39
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In the sentence below:

Exercises, which were corrected by the teacher on the blackboard, made a lot of mistakes.

and it can be rewritten:

Exercises,corrected by the teacher on the blackboard,made a lot of mistate.

However,I read in a book, I see they write:

Exercises,to be corrected by the teacher on the blackboard,made a lot of mistake.

Could you tell me differences between 1(2) sentence(s) above and the last sentence.

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Old 08-Jul-2003, 21:41
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Quote:
Exercises, which were corrected by the teacher on the blackboard, made a lot of mistakes.
That should read: "The exercises, which were corrected by the teacher on the blackboard, contained a lot of mistakes." (Excercises can't make mistakes.)

Quote:
Exercises,corrected by the teacher on the blackboard,made a lot of mistate.
Mistake (not mistate) needs to be plural to conform with "a lot of".

Quote:
Exercises,to be corrected by the teacher on the blackboard,made a lot of mistake.
You need to rewrite that. It should be: "The excercises, which were to be corrected by the teacher at the blackbooard, contained a lot of mistakes."

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Or:
"The excercises, to be corrected by the teacher at the blackbooard, contained a lot of mistakes."
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