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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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