Rendre une phrase correcte : le mot en trop.

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Rendre une phrase correcte : le mot en trop.

THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
... ' I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner’s lodge-keeper, his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and forbidding in his manners; but he had, as far as I know, no active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter...'
Pour le test : passage d'une version simplifiée de 'Sherlock Holmes and the mystery of Boscombe Pool' (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
Test :
Si la phrase vous paraît correcte : répondre 'correct'
Si la phrase vous paraît incorrecte, c'est qu'elle contient 1 mot en trop.
=> Répondre en tapant le mot qui la rend incorrecte.
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1. Mr J. McCarthy, the son of the dead man's gave the following story :
2. I was away from at home for three days
3. because I had business in Bristol. I came back only last Monday
4. in the morning. My father was not at the home when I arrived.
5. A servant told me that he was in Ross on business.
6. After some time, I heard the wheels of his carriage coming back.
7. I have looked out of the window and saw him
8. walking quickly away from the house. I didn't to know
9. where he was going. I then took my gun and went for a walk.
10. I wanted to shoot some birds in the trees on the other side of Boscombe Pool.
11. On my way, I passed William Crowder, as if he has told you.
12. But he is wrong when he says that tomorrow I was following my father.
13. I had no the idea that he was in front of me. When I was about
14. a hundred yards from the pool, I heard someone call ' Cooer !'
15. My father and I often were used this call. I hurried
16. towards the pool and found him was standing there...'

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