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Cut Build Motorway Lot Trees Make Tall Fall

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Keyword cut
Sub Entry Number 3
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence To build the motorway, they will have to cut a lot of trees.
Correct Sentence To build the motorway, they will have to cut down a lot of trees.
Cloze Error Sentence To build the motorway, they will have to cut [[ ]] a lot of trees.
Cloze Sentence To build the motorway, they will have to cut [[down]] a lot of trees.
Cloze Answer down
Choices down | _
Explanation

cut down = make something tall (such as a tree) fall down by cutting through it close to the ground: 'All the elms were diseased and had to be cut down.'

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