Intermediate Grammar 17

Exercise 2

Read the following story carefully. In some lines there's a word that is not necessary there - choose those words, but be careful, because in some lines there are no unnecessary words.

1) One evening a woman was so very frightened
2) when she saw a little mouse sitting
3) in the middle of the floor, and jumped
4) onto the chair and called for any help,
5) but nobody has came.
6) Then she remembered that she had had a cat.
7) She thought so it was brave enough to chase the little mouse away.
8) So she ran to downstairs to fetch it. She found the cat
9) and ran upstairs with it, feeling sure
10) that it would make the mouse to run away.
11) But instead of chasing the mouse,
12) the cat was jumped into the woman's lap -
13) it was the more afraid of the little creature than the woman.
14) The little mouse thought of that
15) it had never seen such a cowardly cat.
16) So it went into the kitchen and ate up all the cheese from the fridge.

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