IELTS Grammar: correct the mistakes

Try to correct the mistakes in the following sentences.

1. More proportion of American people in 1970 than in 2000 got married.
2. There are many things easy enough for those young people to do.
3. I am agreed that volunteer work can build up the responsibilities in youngs.
4. Society gets benefitted as the juvenile crime rate reduced.
5. Having a work experience may help to having a job quicker and easier.

PS. Nobody answered this question from Monday's reading lesson:

If a survey showed that "households spent seven hours a day on transporting themselves and their goods", does this mean that it was "a survey of household expenditure on transport"?

Comments

[ayesha]

hi simon ,
thanks for the interaction with your students.answers are
1.more propotion of americans got married in 1970 than in 2000.

2.there are many things esay enough to do for those young people

.3.i am agreed that voluntary work can build up the responsibilities in youth.

4.society benefits as the juvinile crime rate reduces.

5.having a work experience may help getting a job quickly and easily.

answer to mondays lesson is false.simon i have asked you about the same question yesterday .it is quite tricky to answer such type kindly clarify my point it may help others to solve their query too.

YOU ARE ALWAYS A GREAT HELP .BLESS U
ayesha.

[Cameli82]

1. More proportion of American people in 1970 than in 2000 got married.
----> The proportion of American people got married in 1970 more than that in 2000.
2. There are many things easy enough for those young people to do.
-----> There are many easy enough things for those young people to do.
or There are many things which those young people can do.
3. I am agreed that volunteer work can build up the responsibilities in youngs
-----> I agreed that volunteer work can build up the responsibilities of the young.
4. Society gets benefitted as the juvenile crime rate reduced.

----> Society gets benefitted as the rate of juvenile crime reduced.
5. Having a work experience may help to having a job quicker and easier.
----> Having a working experience may help to have a job quicker and easier.

[phuongpt]

1. The proportion of American people getting marriage in 1970 is higher than that in 2000.
2.There are many things that are easy enough for young people to do.
3.I agreed that volunteer work can build up responsibilities for the young.
4.Society gets benefits as the juvenile crime rate reduces.
5. Having working experience may help people find a job quicker and easier.

[Cheryl]

1.A larger proportion of American people got married in 1970 than in 2000 .
2.There are many things easy enough for those young people to do.
sorry i cannot find the mistake in this sentence :(
3.I agree that volunteer work can build up a sense of responsibility in young people.
4.Society gets benefits as the juvenile crime rate reduces.
5.Having work experience may help to have a job quicker and easier.

"households spent seven hours a day on transporting themselves and their goods" is different from "a survey of household expenditure on transport".
The former refers to the time hoursholds spent on transporting, while the latter means the financial costs of transport.

[meso]

hi simon,
which is correct, there are benefits TO getting a job OR there are benefits of getting a job?
thanks

[Truc Quynh]

Dear Simon, here are my answers
More PERCENTAGE of American people in 1970 than in 2000 got married.
There are many things easy enough for YOUNG people to do.
I am agreed that VOLUNTARY work can build up the responsibilities in youngs.
SOCIETIES GET benefitted as the juvenile crime rate reduced.
Having WORK EXPERIENCE may help to having a job quicker and easier.

[Ohya]

1. More proportion of American people in 1970 than in 2000 got married.
->The proportion of American people married in 1970 was larger than that in 2000

2. There are many things easy enough for those young people to do.
-> There are many things which is (or being) easy enough for those young people to do.

3. I am agreed that volunteer work can build up the responsibilities in youngs.
-> I agree that voluntary work can build up the sense of responsibility for youth.

4. Society gets benefitted as the juvenile crime rate reduced.
-> Society obtains benefit as the juvenile crime rate reduces.

5. Having a work experience may help to having a job quicker and easier.
-> Having a work experience may help people have job more quickly and easily.

For the reading question, "households spent seven hours a day on transporting themselves and their goods" means [how much time they spent on transporting], but"a survey of household expenditure on transport" means [how much money they expend on transport].
Consequently, I don't think they are similar.

[Gwang-eun]

1. The proportion of American people who got married in 1970 was higher than in 2000.
2. There are many things easy enough for young people to do.
3. I agree that volunteer work can build up responsibilities in the young.
4. Society gets better as the juvenile crime rate reduces.
5. Having work experience may help people (to) get a job quickly and easily.

* The amount of time spent on transport ha s nothing to do with the amount of money on transport.

[deng]

hello,simon:
my answers:

1.more should be changed into higher
2.no mistake though it is not perfect
3.I agree
4.Society gets benefit as the juvenile crime rate declines(we should not use reduce here,or we can say crime juvenile reduces)
5.having(a should be erased,because in this condition ,expreience is non-count) work experience may help getting(or to get) a job quickly and easily

in most case,expenditure is related to money .so the sentence does not mean "a survey of household expenditure on transport"? it can mean a survey of time spent on transport of household.

[Jamshid]

More proportion of American people got married in 1970 than in 2000.
There are many things enough easy for those young people to do.
I agreed that volunteer work can build up the responsibilities among youngs.
(just one 't')Society gets benefited as the juvenile crime rate reduced.
Having a work experience may help to have a job quicker and easier.

[Jamshid]

Thank you Mr. Simon, for your help and everything!!!

[Ed]

1.The proportion of American people got married is higher in 1970 than that in 2000.
2. There are many things easy for young people to do.
3.I agree that volunteer work can build up responsibility in young.
4. Society is benefited by the reduction of juvenile crime.
5. Working experience may help to find a job quicker and easier.

[Aleksandra Bucholc]

A higher proportion of Americans got married in 1970 than in 2000.
There are many things which are easy enough, and may done by those young people.
I agree that volunteer work can develop young people's abilities to become responsible.
It will benefit society as juvenile crime rate is reduced.
Having a work experience may help to get a job quicker and easier.

[Aleksandra Bucholc]

Sorry,but by writing fast I have missed 'be' after the modal-can in the my second sentence to improve. I am not happy with that and
I do not like mistakes so once more:
There are many things which are easy enough and which may be done by those young people.
Kind regards,
Aleksandra

[Simon]

CORRECT ANSWERS FROM SIMON

1. A higher proportion of American people got married in 1970 than in 2000.
(problems were 'more proportion' and the position of 'got married')

2. There are many things WHICH/THAT ARE easy enough for those young people to do.
OR: Many things are easy enough...

3. I agree that volunteer work can help to teach young people about having responsibilities.
(don't write 'I am agreed' or 'youngs', and we don' really say 'build up the responsibilities')

4. Society benefits (or 'will benefit') as the juvenile crime rate falls.
(not 'gets benefitted' and not 'reduced' in the past tense)

5. Work experience may make finding a job quicker and easier.
('experience' is usually uncountable, so don't write 'having a work experience'. You can't say 'help to having')

Extra question:

The answer is NO. "Expenditure" means "money spent", but not "time spent".

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Hi Meso,

If you google them, you will see that we use both.

[Mh]

Hi Simon,

I guess you find those mistakes in writing/essays of your students. Then you put them here. I should say that this a great work. I think some of same mistakes make by certain languages. For example, It is seen that Chinese people make same mistakes and Arabic people make other mistakes, because all of them already try to translate from their own language to English.I think it would be better teachers from every language make a list of common mistakes made by translating from origin language to English. I myself saw how my people make same mistakes through translating. It goes same for other language such as Japanese or spanish.

[Simon]

Good point Mh. Mistakes are almost always caused by trying to translate.

[Antony]

1 Higher proportion...
2 ...that are easy enough...
3 I agree...
4 ...gets benefit...
5 Having work experience...

[arash]

household transport ofcourse

[Li]

Hi Simon,

What if I change the last sentence to find a job more quickly and more easily. Should there be adverbs there?

Thanks.

Li.