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Workforce Threatening Strike Go/Be Transport Workers Pay Shorter

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Keyword strike
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence The whole workforce is threatening to go on a strike.
Correct Sentence The whole workforce is threatening to go on strike.
Cloze Error Sentence The whole workforce is threatening to go on [[a]] strike.
Cloze Sentence The whole workforce is threatening to go on [[ ]] strike.
Cloze Answer _
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Explanation

go/be on strike (WITHOUT a ): 'Transport workers have gone on strike for better pay and shorter hours.' 'The miners are still on strike.'

Note however: 'Some of the prisoners have gone on (a) hunger strike.'

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