Error Correction Exercises: Cambridge FCE with Answers

Some of the lines in this exercise are correct; others have a word which should not be there. Which lines are correct? Which are wrong, and what is the unnecessary word.

01. Mr Fred Harris decided to leave from home. He had been unemployed

02. for three months. His wife was getting more and more angry.

03. He could not go on with any longer. So, one Wednesday morning,

04. he packed together a small suitcase and left his home in Newcastle.

05. He went on to the railway station and, when

06. after buying a platform ticket for five pence, boarded on the express train

07. to London. Fred was hungry, so he borrowed a waiter’s jacket

08. he found that hanging behind a door in the dining carriage.

09. He went into a lavatory and put on the jacket. From then he went back

10. to the dining car. He hoped, he said that, to get a quick snack. However, he was seen

11. by the head waiter, who said to him: Where have you been?

12. Get on with serving out the lunches, will you!” This opened

13. a new life for Fred. He travelled there backwards and forwards for six weeks,

14. all over the country. Then the police caught up with him. They found him

15. sleeping in a train compartment half the way between Glasgow and London.

01. from

03. with

04. together

05. when

06. on

08. that

09. from

10. that

12. out

13. there

15. the

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