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Task
3. There are five mistakes with modal verbs in the text. Find them and write the corrections below.
(11) Last summer I decided to get a part time job so I could have earned some money. I got the newspaper and circled all the jobs that I thought I could do, (12) i mustn't have applied for more than 20 jobs - everything from working in a supermarket to teaching English. (13) However, I could have written a good letter because I wasn't invited to any interviews. I got email after email politely telling me that my application had been rejected. (14) One company even told me that with my lack of experience I needn't applied. I was really disappointed and in the end I gave up looking for a job. (15) A few weeks later I realised I should had asked my dad. He's a gardener and he had been looking for someone to help him for the summer. He didn't ask me because he didn't think I would want to work with him,
Решение:
Ниже привожу поэтапное объяснение найденных ошибок и их исправления: 1. Ошибка в предложении (11): Исходный вариант: «Last summer I decided to get a part time job so I could have earned some money.» Анализ: Фраза «could have earned» употреблена для выражения нереализованной возможности в прошлом, но здесь подразумевается обычная цель – «заработать деньги». Исправление: Надо использовать «could earn», то есть: «Last summer I decided to get a part time job so I could earn some money.» 2. Ошибка в предложении (12): Исходный вариант: «...i mustnt have applied f...