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[san2612]

Find and correct the underlined word or phrase which should be corrected

1 I fully understand your reasons for waiting to leave, but I still think there are one or two points you ought to consider.

2 Despite this insistence that he should appear when there is an important event , the president attends press conference with the news media at his invitation.

3,
An American expects his or her conversation partner to respond a statement immediately, but in some other cultures, people leave silence between each statement.

4, The jumping mouse, especially when startled from its hiding place, may take a few long jumps, but generally stop and remain motionless.

5, I put my new book of zoology here on the desk a few minutes ago, but I can not seem to find it.

6, The goalkeeper is the only player allowed to touch the ball with the hands while the ball is in playing.

[wise owl]

1 I fully understand your reasons for waiting to leave, but I still think there are one or two points you ought to consider.

2 Despite this insistence that he should appear when there is an important event , the president attends press conference with the news media at his invitation.

3.An American expects his (or her) conversation partner to respond a statement immediately, but in some other cultures, people leave silence between each statement.

4, The jumping mouse, especially when startled from its hiding place, may take a few long jumps, but generally stops and remains motionless.

5, I put my new book of zoology here on the desk a few minutes ago, but I cannot seem to find it.

6, The goalkeeper is the only player allowed to touch the ball with the hands while the ball is in the playing-field/football ground.

[BobK]

Please, wise owl, encourage students to do some work.

Incidentally, san2612, some of the answers given are dubious. One does not 'respond a statement', and (although it's grammatical) no native speaker of English would say 'the ball is in the playing field'; on the playing field, maybe. But the hand-ball rule applies also when the ball is in the air. What the exercise is obviously looking for is the expression 'the ball is in play'. (When the ball is 'in the football ground'. incidentally, it may be several metres from the playing area; and any player may indeed pick it up in his or her hands.)

Did the setter of the task think that sentences 1 and 5 were wrong in some way? (And, for what it's worth, I don't understand sentence 2.)

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[san2612]

Each sentence has mistakes
Why don't you understand sentence 2 ?
insistence - continual and persistent demands

[bhaisahab]

Each sentence has mistakes
Why don't you understand sentence 2 ?
insistence - continual and persistent demands

2 Despite this insistence that he should appear when there is an important event , the president attends press conference with the news media at his invitation.

I don't understand this sentence either.

[san2612]

The sentence 2 means "there are some persistent demands that the president appear when there is an important event, but he attends meetings with the news media." (he appears even when there's no important event)