KEY: error sheet #1, multiple choice
- the incorrect word or phrase has been correctd in CAPITALS
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(1) After a few DAYS, people noticed another peacock had been killed..
(2) The next day five more PEACOCKS were killed, so people were very worried.
(3) One woman stabbed another woman and her baby was born DEAD.
(4) A similar thing [WORD REMOVED] happened in Vancouver in 1991.
(5) After she HAD her baby, Brenda had a mental illness.
(6) He couldn't find a job for a long time. [COMMA REMOVED. PERIOD AND CAPITAL ADDED]. He had had only a high school education. (this could also be corrected by removing the comma and inserting a conjunction such as "because.")
(7) When he told her he was going to chop her head off, she started TO CRY or CRYING.
(8) While he was WORKING in the mental hospital, he got married.