2015-02-24 Workshop: my house corrections

Greg Malivuk
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Fix all the mistakes you can find in my paragraph about my house.
- What time do the actions happen in the paragraph?
- There are 10 mistakes.
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* At the house where I grew up     had   a great yard for playing outside.
  At the house where I grew up  I  had   a great yard for playing outside.
  At the house where I grew up there was a great yard for playing outside.
     The house where I grew up     had   a great yard for playing outside.

* My house have a large yard with a lot    tree.
  My house  had a large yard with a lot of trees.
(It's in the past, and "a lot" needs "of" and plural.)

I enjoyed climbing trees in the spring and summer.
(correct)

* In autumn, the leaves falled off the trees.
  In autumn, the leaves  fell  off the trees.
(Need correct past form of "fall".)

* We putted the leaves into a big pile and  jump  in them.
  We  put   the leaves into a big pile and jumped in them.
(Need correct past forms of "put" and "jump".)

* In the winter, we make a snow man.
  In the winter, we made   snow men. (more than one winter = more than one snowman)
(The winter when I was a child.)

* Sometimes we were went sledding on the hill in front of my house.
  Sometimes we      went sledding on the hill in front of my house.
("went" is the past simple of "go", we don't add "were")

* When I am  a teenager, we built a swimming pool.
  When I was a teenager, we built a swimming pool.
(I was a teenager in the past.)

* My sister and I went swimming many time.
  My sister and I went swimming many times.
("many" = plural = "times")

* Sometimes I am sad now because I don't have   big yard to play outside.
  Sometimes I am sad now because I don't have a big yard to play outside.
(singular "yard", so we need an article)