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hirashin

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Dear native English speakers,
I have created another worksheet.
Could you correct my sentences if needed?
1) Henry is a vegetarian. He doesn't even drink milk.

2) My grandparents had lived in London when the second World War began.

3) By the end of 2015, over one thousand companies had joined the project.

4) The company offers more than one hundred food and drink items.

5) The project started by Kogure Masahisa has been successful.

6) We have sold more than one thousand meals in total this month.

7) What's the number of the students of this school as of April 2017?

8) This project was approved by the president. (president = [会社の]会長)

9) You must submit this report by the end of the/this month.

10) There are more than ten million people in Tokyo.

11) By October 2015, more than one hundred companies had joined the group.

12) Even in the heavy rain, he continued to run.

13) That bridge is being built now.

14) This food has been approved by the group.

Thanks in advance.

Hirashin
 
Everything looks fine to me. (2) sounds a little odd with "had" there. I would only likely personally have the word "had" there if I mentioned a period of time that they had lived there. "My grandparents had lived in London for five years when the second World War began."
 
I don't have a problem with 2 necessarily. It means that they didn't live in London at the time WW2 began, but they had lived there before that time. It could make sense if the fact that London was a prior residence was relevant to the beginning of WW2. I must admit, though, I can think of no such relevance it could hold.

If you wanted to say that they lived in London at that time, you would use:

"My grandparents lived in London when the second World War began."

Of course, you can also use what OoTmaster suggested.

Everything else looks good.
 
Thanks for the help, OoTmaster and Julimaruchan.
I'll change #2 into the version OoTmaster has given.
 
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