Identify the error! Which phrase/word in brackets are incorrect? Give the correction.

1. When caterpillars (are fully-grown), they attach themselves (to a leave or twig) and form
a shell (around itself called) a cocoon.
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2. After (to have won) the light-heavyweight title (at the) 1960 Olympic Games,
Muhammad Ali (began) to box (professionally).
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Aluminium has a (hard imperious) coasting which protects the metal from (corrode).
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Rocks can be broken apart by water (that) seeps into the cracks and (freeze) in
low (temperatures).
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5. After (learned) to print, (elementary) school (children) learn cursive )writing).
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6. The professor was (considering postponing) the examination until (the following week)
(because) the student's confusion
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7. When he took (the) ticket out of (from his pocket), a hundred dollar bill fell (to) the
floor (without) his noticing it.
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8. Before television became (so popular), Americans used (to entertain each other) in the
evening by playing games, (saying) stories, and singing songs.
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9. Grace Peter, (she) spent (her life) working with the health and welfare of the families of
workers.
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10. (Knowledges) about (cultures) provides insights (into the learned) behaviors of (groups).
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11. Ekaette Okon earned (the funds) to (go south) by (sale) his new ideas (about) growing
potatoes.
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12. Although maple trees are (among) the most colorful varieties (in the fall), they
lose (its) leaves (sooner than) oak trees.
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13. The basic (law) of addition, subtraction, multiplication and (division) are (taught) to all
elementary (school) students.
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14. If Robert Kennedy (would have lived) (a little longer), he probably (would have won) the
election.
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15. In experiments with (large numbers) of animals crowded in small cages, some have not
been affected, but (the rest of) (have shown all of the symptoms) associated with stress
and mental illness.
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1. Leave > leaf; itself > themselves
2. Omit the phrase ‘to have’ change the word ‘won’ to winning’
3. Corrode > corrosion
4. Freeze . freezes
5. Learned > learning
6. Because > due to
7. Omit the ‘from’
8. Saying > telling
9. Omit the ‘she’
10. Knowledges > knowledge (because knowledge is uncountable noun)
11. Sale > selling
12. 1ts > theirs
13. Law > laws
14. Would have lived > had lived
15. The rest of > the rest