Students practice their grammar skills by finding and fixing mistakes in a short paragraph about doing laundry.

Let’s go through the paragraph step by step to find and fix the mistakes.

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Original text:

> Of all the different household chores, I dislike laundry the most! I don’t mind puting the laundry in the washing machine or pulling wet laundry out of the washer and heaving it into the drier. Its folding and hanging and putting away all the Laundry that I can’t stand, so I tend to not do it. Then I end up with heaps of clean dry wrinkled laundry on various pieces of furniture. I wish I had a made to do this for me?

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Step 1: Look for spelling errors

- “puting” → should be putting (double ‘t’)
- “drier” → when talking about the appliance, it’s usually spelled dryer
- “Laundry” → capitalized unnecessarily; should be laundry (unless starting a sentence)
- “a made” → doesn’t make sense; probably meant maid

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Step 2: Look for grammar/punctuation errors

- “Its folding and hanging...” → “Its” is possessive (like “the dog’s tail”). Here we need It’s = “It is”
- “so I tend to not do it.” → awkward phrasing. Better: so I tend not to do it.
- “clean dry wrinkled laundry” → missing commas between adjectives: clean, dry, wrinkled laundry
- Last sentence ends with a question mark but it’s not a question → should be a period

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Step 3: Count the mistakes

Let’s list them clearly:

1. puting → putting
2. drier → dryer
3. Its → It’s
4. Laundry → laundry
5. tend to not → tend not to
6. clean dry wrinkled → clean, dry, wrinkled
7. a made → a maid
8. ? at end → .

That’s 8 mistakes.

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Step 4: Rewrite the corrected version

Here’s the fixed paragraph:

> Of all the different household chores, I dislike laundry the most! I don’t mind putting the laundry in the washing machine or pulling wet laundry out of the washer and heaving it into the dryer. It’s folding and hanging and putting away all the laundry that I can’t stand, so I tend not to do it. Then I end up with heaps of clean, dry, wrinkled laundry on various pieces of furniture. I wish I had a maid to do this for me.

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Final Answer:
There are 8 mistakes. The corrected text is:
“Of all the different household chores, I dislike laundry the most! I don’t mind putting the laundry in the washing machine or pulling wet laundry out of the washer and heaving it into the dryer. It’s folding and hanging and putting away all the laundry that I can’t stand, so I tend not to do it. Then I end up with heaps of clean, dry, wrinkled laundry on various pieces of furniture. I wish I had a maid to do this for me.”