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4. Andrew said that their were less people at the concert than he

had expected to see.

5. As she turned to look at the clock, Althea saw that ten minutes
had past while she had been standing in line. “I new I should

not have come to the post office on my lunch hour,” she

thought.

Review Exercise 26-5 Editing a Paragraph

for Errors in Words Commonly Confused

Underline and correct the word choice error in each sentence of the

following paragraph.

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When I was a child, my parents took my sister and me too the circus.
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I can remember walking threw the flaps of a large circus tent and
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sitting on tiered bleachers around a center ring. The circus began
with clowns on bicycles circling the ring, waving at the crowd, and
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tooting their bicycle horns as they past. They were followed by

tumblers who flipped and rolled across the ring and a contortionist
who twisted herself into pretzel shapes and did everything accept

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turn herself inside out. Next came a beautiful woman wearing a

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