Answer — Exercise 6
4.1·Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Workbook
Domanda
Find and correct nine mistakes in the text: three grammar (gr), three spelling (sp) and three punctuation (p).
Risposta
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)