请改正下面短文中的错误。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词;
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉;
修改:在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Noah Webster, a teacher
which graduated from Yale University in 1778, once fought against the British
in the American War of Independence. He felt that writing English in the newly
independent United States should have distinctive "American" look.
His first book, The Elementary
Spelling Book, suggested simplify the spelling of English words. The book
was extreme popular. By the 1850s it was selling one million copies a year,
making them one of the most popular school books ever.
What's more, Webster is
best know for his American Dictionary of the English Language, which first was appeared in 1828.Today, it was still the
number one dictionaries for American students.