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Age Father Left School Fourteen Aged Number Alan

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Keyword aged
Sub Entry Number 2
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence My father left school at aged fourteen.
Correct Sentence My father left school at (the age of) fourteen.
Cloze Error Sentence My father left school at [[aged]] fourteen.
Cloze Sentence My father left school at [[(the age of)]] fourteen.
Cloze Answer (the age of)
Choices (the age of) | aged
Explanation

at (the age of ) + NUMBER: 'Alan got married at twenty.' 'Sue got divorced at the age of twenty-one.'

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