Find and write down the extra word in each line. (0.5 point for each correct answer ) getting a mortgage 1. someone told to me a few months ago that getting a mortgage would be easy. how 2. wrong they were! when i first went into the bank, i asked if them how much i could 3. borrow. they refused that to answer ever such a simple question, saying that i had to 4. actually find a house before they could tell me whether they would have land me the 5. money or not. i thought this was ridiculous and so told it a white lie, saying that 6. i had been already found a house. they finally said they would lend me the money, so 7. that was great. then the problems started. a few weeks later a friend told me that about 8. a wonderful flat that was for sale. he suggested to our buying it together because it was 9. so large and i agreed. when i went back to the bank and said so i was planning to 10. buy a flat with a friend, the bank manger denied doing that he had ever said the bank 11. would give me a mortgage and claimed that he has had looked at my finances and knew 12. i wasn’t earning enough to borrow money. i begged with him to have another look at my 13. records as i knew he was wrong. finally, he agreed me to reconsider my case and 14. eventually sent me a letter which stated that the bank would was quite happy to give me 15. a mortgage. by then, though, it was said too late as someone else had bought the flat!
