Correct the sentences below by crossing out unnecessary prepositions, adding needed prepositions, and/or replacing incorrect prepositions. Each sentence contains one error. Rewrite the corrected sentence on the lines provided.

The albatross is the largest the web-footed birds.

1. Wildflowers can be substituted with mowed grass on highway shoulders and medians.

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2. To clear deep snow off of a sidewalk or driveway, shovel the snow in layers, starting with the top few inches.

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3. You can rely to Southerners never to agree about politics, religion, or barbecuing.

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4. Among dark and light turkey meat, the dark meat has more calories.

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5. Chocolate is different to mocha, which is a combination of chocolate and coffee.

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6. The "new, improved’ cereal is neither different nor cheaper than the old one.

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7. Unfortunately, my new computer is not compatible to my old computer printer.

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8. Bricks made of sun-dried mud have been used as building materials since before 3,400 B.C., but such bricks are durable only warm, dry climates.

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9. Cats are capable to living thirteen or fourteen years.

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10. Arab countries the Red Cross is known as the Red Crescent.

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