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Age Father Left School Fourteen Aged Number Alan

Idx 0117
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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