Re-write the following sentences, correcting all errors.

The things children write.......in exams.

A monologue is a conversation between two people, such as a husband and wife.

When father passed away, they burned his ashes and brought them home in a
urinal.

Chivalry is the act of a man who gives his seat to a lady in a public convenience.

Romeo and Juliet tell each other how much they are in love in the baloney scene.

Big flies were hoovering all round the room.

After several years, his business began to flush.

His mother, being immortal, had died.

The equator is a menagerie line running around the earth through Africa.

An oboe is an American tramp.

Trigonometry is when a lady marries three men at the same time.

Caviar is the eggs of a surgeon.

The feminine of manager is menagerie.

The plural of spouse is spice.

A momentum is what you give a person when they are leaving.

An aristocrat is a man who does somersaults on the stage.

A scout obeys all to whom obedience is due and respects all duly constipated
authorities.

A barrister is a thing put up in the street to keep the crowds back.

William the Conqueror landed in 1066AD and AD means after dark.

The Pilgrim Fathers became a big band of Quackers.

Roman women built fires in their brassieres.

Monks were assigned to monkeries where they were supposed to live as nuns.
Many, however, simply preyed by day and played by night.

Henry V111 had an abbess on his knee which made walking difficult.

The government of England was a limited mockery.

 Lady Macbeth tried to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his

manhood.
Source: Could Do Better, by Norman McGreevy, publ. Constable 2010.

What’s the difference between these pairs of words? Write one

sentence for each word to show its meaning clearly.

monologue duologue 14. urn urinal

boloney balcony 15. hoover hover

mortal immortal 16. menagerie imaginary

oboe hobo 17. surgeon sturgeon

manager menagerie 18. momentum memento

aristocrat acrobat 19. constipated constituted

barrister barrier 20. braziers brassieres

prey pray 21. abbess abscess

mockery democracy 22. ration rationalise

spice spouse 23. polygamy trigonometry

flush flourish 24. quack Quakers