Cover of the textbook New Headway Advanced - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1 - Tense review for the textbook New Headway Advanced - Workbook with authors Liz Soars, John Soars and Paul Hancock from Oxford University Press

Question

There is one mistake in each of the sentences below. Find it and correct it.

Answer

  1. Humans are unique among primates in that they walk upright.
  2. What have you been doing since I last saw you? / What have you been doing since I saw you last?
  3. I hated school. Perhaps I'd have liked it if I had been more popular.
  4. Why didn't you tell me that you don't like fruit cake?
  5. I was going to go to the theatre last night, but then I heard that the performance was cancelled / had been cancelled.
  6. The forecast said unsettled, so take your umbrella in case it rains.
  7. His mother put him to bed early because he had been naughty.
  8. I'm visiting / I'm going to visit my grandmother in Scotland.
  9. If you're seeing Jane at the weekend, will / could you invite her to my party, please?
  10. He wasn't thinking of celebrating his retirement, but he's now decided it's a good idea.