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The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.1 for the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Damian Williams from Pearson Education

Question

Find and correct nine mistakes in the text: three grammar (gr), three spelling (sp) and three punctuation (p).

Answer

The Greatest Mind in Fiction

Most of fiction's great minds belong (gr) either to criminals or to the men and women who catch them. The (gr) greatest of these is probably Sherlock Holmes. The Holmes stories were written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (p) a doctor (sp) from Edinburgh (p), Scotland. Conan Doyle knew a lot about the human body and police (sp) work, and he (gr) used this information in his books. Very quickly, Conan Doyle's hero became (sp) popular. When Holmes was killed in one story, thousands of readers protested. Conan Doyle changed his mind, and Holmes appeared in another story. (p)