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TOEFL - Error recognition Test 29

Each question has one grammar mistake. Choose the underlined portion that has the mistake.
Questions 1 - 5 of 20

1. He has been hoped for a raise for the last four months, but his boss is reluctant to give him one.

A. has been hoped
B. last
C. to give
D. one

2. Dorothea Dix worked extensively during the second half of the nineteenth century to improve condition in mental health facilities and the prisons.

A. extensively
B. during the
C. to improve condition
D. the

3. Mobile telephones have replaced the pagers as the most common accouterments of the up-to-date young businessperson.

A. have
B. the pagers
C. most common
D. up-to-date

4. Mosquitos are such fast breeders that it is almost impossible to control them either by draining areas where they breed or to spray them with pesticides.

A. such
B. either
C. they breed
D. to spray

5. The philanthropist did not feel sad when he donated his only to the museum.

A. The
B. did not
C. when
D. his only