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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Review and practice 1 for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Find the mistakes in nine of the sentences and correct them.

Answer

  1. By the time she finishes her degree, she will have been at the university ten years.
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  3. I feel healthier now that I have taken up kickboxing,
  4. Where were you? I've been waiting here for an hour.
  5. It was a shock when I saw him. I would have expected to see a big man, but he was tiny.
  6. When she got to work, she found out she had been fired. Her desk was empty, everything gone.
  7. Hi, John! We've just been talking about you!
  8. It's 9 o'clock. Mandy will have landed at the airport by now.
  9. I'd been running for years before I entered my first competition.
  10. We'll have used up all the world's oil long before 2100.