Sentence: There is little if any cultivation in...

[Jojo]

English Grammar Error, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #21 "Modal Verbs", question 3

There is little if any cultivation in that area of the country and so all you see is miles of savage countryside.

(a) cultivation
(b) all
(c) savage

English Grammar Error, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #21 "Modal Verbs", answer 3

There is little if any cultivation in that area of the country and so all you see is miles of wild countryside.

Correct entry: wild
The error was: (c) savage
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Jojo

[Alan]

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[Guest]

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Savage is usually used of people and animals, and usually threatening in implication, JoJo; it is not used of uncultivated countryside.
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