Find and correct mistakes in parallel structures in the following sentences. 1. Steel is alloyed with manganese to increase its strength, hardness and resistant to wear. 2. Sacramento is the commercial, industry, and financial center of California’s Central Valley, as well as being the state capital. 3. When taking part in winter sports, one should wear clothing that is lightweight, warmth, and suitable for the activity. 4. Folklore consists of the beliefs, customs, traditions, and telling stories that people pass from generation to generation. 5. Because of their hardness, industrial diamonds can be used for cutting, to grind, and drilling. 6. Scholar John Fiske wrote on history, religious, and sociology. 7. Monterey, California, has long been a center for writers, artists, and the craftsman. 8. T.S. Eliot was equally distinguished as a poet, he wrote criticism and dramatist.9. The book contained stories, poetic and plays. 10. She needed some shoes that were inexpensively, hard-wearing and attractive.

Last year I went with my family to New York. We visited my parents' old friends. New York impressed me. Do you know that the Dutch made the city?They called it New Ansterdam.

I think the heart of New York is Broadway and it is the heart of American theatre industry. It got its name in the 18th century. The name Broadway was the English translation of the Dutch name. The street runs 15 miles (24km) through Manhattan and the Bronx. There are about 40 theatres there. We were lucky to get tickets and saw a wonderful musical "Mary Poppins".

1)London is the capital of Great Britain.

2. London is two thousand years old.

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4 Many years ago London was a small town on the Thames. There were a lot of villages round it. After many years London and three hundred villages grew into a very large city. Some of the names of those villages are the names of the streets in modern London-Kensington, Westminster.

5, On the top of the column there is a 17-feet-tall statue of Admiral Nelson who defeated the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1809.

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