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Began Mad Eventually Rejected Hamlet Ophelia Drowns

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Keyword mad
Sub Entry Number 1
Type of Sentence ✗
Error Sentence She began to think she was becoming mad.
Correct Sentence She began to think she was going mad.
Cloze Error Sentence She began to think she was [[becoming]] mad.
Cloze Sentence She began to think she was [[going]] mad.
Cloze Answer going
Choices going | becoming
Explanation

go mad (NOT become ) =: 'Eventually, rejected by Hamlet, Ophelia goes mad and drowns herself.'

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