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Read the following sentences carefully and identify errors, if any.

1. Thousands of Sikh pilgrim from all over the world gathered at a shrine in Pakistan on
Sunday to celebrate the religious festival of Baisakhi, the Sikh New Year and harvest festival.
2. Baisakhi, also known as Vaisakhi, is being celebrated on April 13 or 14 every year and
also marks the anniversary of the founding of the "Khalsa Panth" in 1699 by the tenth Sikh
Guru, Guru Gobind Singh.
3. Despite recent tensions between Pakistan and India, near 2,000 Indian Sikh pilgrims
traveled across the border to celebrate at the Panja Sahib shrine in Hasan Abdal, near the
capital Islamabad on Sunday.
4. The shrine is considered particularly important to Sikhs as it hold a boulder believed to
bear the handprint of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism.
5. To facilitate hassle free cross-border travel for religious devotees, India and Pakistan are in
talks to built a corridor that will connect two Sikh temples between the two countries.
6. Due to open in 2019, the so called Kartarpur corridor will be five kilometer (3.1 miles)
long passage that will enable devotees to travel from the Indian border town of Gurdaspur
and across the international border into Pakistan.
7. An array of discreet and often hand-drawn -- logos feature alongside candidates' names on
electronic voting machines across India during its general election, the world's largest
democratic exercise.
8. The symbols help the dozens of participating parties to differentiate themselves from one
another, while making them easier for voters to make their choice in a country where around
a quarter of the population is illiterate.
9. Sending lawmakers of on an unexpected Easter break after the Brexit deadline was
extended for six months, Theresa May told them to use the opportunity to "reflect" on how to
get out of the current stalemate that has left the UK in limbo.
10. The Prime Minister is thought to be taking a few days off -- perhaps on one of her
favorite walking holiday with her husband -- before returning to Westminster, clear-headed
and refreshed, to try to finally find a deal on Brexit.
11. The decision by EU leaders to extend the deadline for Brexit until October 31, at the end
of a fraught summit that ran into the early hours of Thursday morning, was akin to a pressure
valve released in Westminster.
12. Maddie Peters has never spilled a drink on a flight in her four years of being a flight
attendant for American Airlines. That is, until the airline's CEO was on board.
13. Before a flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to Dallas earlier this month, Peters and her fellow
flight attendants were told that American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and few other
executives would be on board.
14. While carrying a full tray of drinks she was serving to first class passengers, a passenger
in front of her abruptly stopped and backed into her tray.
15. Julian Assange father has urged the Australian government to help his son, calling on
them to bring the WikiLeaks founder home, in an interview with an Australian newspaper.
16. Spoke for the first time since his son's arrest in London earlier this week, John Shipton
told New Corp's Herald Sun of his "shock" at seeing his son carried out of the Ecuadorian
Embassy by British police.
17. "I saw him -- the way they dragged him down the steps, the coppers -- he didn't look
good. I'm 74 and I look better to him and he's 47. It's such a shock," he said.
18. Assange had been holed up inside the embassy for seven years, but Ecuador withdrawn
his asylum on Thursday.
19. In the unsigned order, the majority said that death row inmates in Alabama has the choice
back in 2018 to elect to "be executed via nitrogen hypoxia" but that Price did not do so.
20. According to the state, Price and an accomplish wielded a sword and a knife in 1991 and
stabbed Bill Lynn, a minister, to death.

Find and correct the grammar mistakes:

1. We cleaned all the kitchen while our parents were out to dinner.
2. If I’m stressed out about something, I tend to have problem to fall asleep.
3. One of the most important issue is the lack of parking spaces at the local mall.
4. If you don’t mind, I’d prefer leave early tomorrow.
5. Do you have a few minutes to discuss about this project?
6. The survey we performed recently showed that most of customers are satisfied.
7. Although I’ve known him for a while, I still can’t believe how much stubborn he is.
8. This is a very simple procedure; it will take less of ten minutes.
9. I’ve loved classical music ever since I was child.
10. Would you like to take part of this activity?
11. It takes me a hour to reach the temple.
12. An European visited in India.
13. Rich should help poor.
14. Divide this apple between the girls.
15. She aims to do well in the exams.
16. The patient is now free of danger.
17. She called at her friend.
18. She or he have done well.
19. The chief minister as well as his followers are at the meeting.
20. The boys with their teacher are out in the field.
21. The moon along with the stars shine at night.
22. Either my neighbour or her children is coming for dinner.
23. Neither they nor I were mistaken.
24. Each of them are England citizens.
25. Everyone of the barrels are full.
26. Not one of the boys are doing well.
27. One of the boys are missing.
28. None of them have arrived yet.
29. None is genuine.
30. One must not reveal his secrets to all.
31. As we were late so we apologised.
32. The woman is so poor and she cannot save anyting.
33. She has been waiting for you since 3 hours.
34. Much water are wasted.
35. Many students has turned up for the seminar.