EDITING PASSAGE EXERCISE-11
The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which a blank is given. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. The first one has been done for you as an example.
Incorrect | Correct | ||
Peter and Michael decide to | e.g. | decide | decided |
visit the Science museum at | (a) | ………… | ………… |
there city. They asked Rahul | (b) | ………… | ………… |
if’ he will like to join them. | (c) | ………… | ………… |
Rahul were happy at the idea. | (d) | ………… | ………… |
They bought their ticket at | (e) | ………… | ………… |
the gate and walked in | (f) | ………… | ………… |
the museum. It takes them | (g) | ………… | ………… |
a hour to see the entire museum. | (h) | ………… | ………… |
Answer
Incorrect | Correct | |
(a) | at | in |
(b) | there | their |
(c) | will | would |
(d) | were | was |
(e) | ticket | tickets |
(f) | in | into |
(g) | takes | took |
(h) | a | an |
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EDITING PASSAGE-EXERCISE-12
The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which a blank is given. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. The first one has been done for you as an example.
Incorrect | Correct | ||
Jagdish Prasad Sharma had hardly dreaming that his proficiency | eg. | dreaming | dreamed |
in Hindi should one day take him from | (a) | ………… | ………… |
the quiet holy town of Mathura for the bright | (b) | ………… | ………… |
lights of the US. Sharma was one between | (c) | ………… | ………… |
the too-odd Hindi teachers who has | (d) | ………… | ………… |
travelled to Nokia to be interviewing by a | (e) | ………… | ………… |
delegation from the US, who was in India | (f) | ………… | ………… |
of headhunt young, full time Hindi teachers | (g) | ………… | ………… |
for schools on the United States. | (h) | ………… | ………… |
Answer
Incorrect | Correct | |
(a) | should | would |
(b) | for | to |
(c) | between | among |
(d) | has | had |
(e) | interviewing | interviewed |
(f) | was | were |
(g) | of | to |
(h) | on | in |