EXERCISE-1
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 | ||
| Some animal activist are horrified | activist | activists | |
| about the pitiable condition of the animals in the zoos. They demands | (a) | ………… | ………… |
| ethical treatment from animals. According | (b) | ………… | ………… |
| to them zoos are more then anima | (c) | ………… | ………… |
| prisons maintaining for human | (d) | ………… | ………… |
| amusement. There the animals are deprived from even basic | (e) | ………… | ………… |
| care. But the zoo industry justify | (f) | ………… | ………… |
| the lodging and breeding of animals in the | (g) | ………… | ………… |
| ground that they are preventing from extinction. | (h) | ………… | ………… |
Answer
| Incorrect | correct | |
| (a) | demands | demand |
| (b) | from | to |
| (c) | then | than |
| (d) | maintaining | maintained |
| (e) | from | of |
| (f) | justify | justifies |
| (g) | in | on |
| (h) | preventing | prevented |
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EXERCISE- 2
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 | ||
| In simple words ‘Welfare’ mean | e.g. | mean | means |
| state of well being and happy. Human | (a) | ………… | ………… |
| welfare largely depends in the quality | (b) | ………… | ………… |
| of the environment which surrounded | (c) | ………… | ………… |
| him. Environment are of two types— | (d) | ………… | ………… |
| the internal environment or the external | (e) | ………… | ………… |
| environment. External environment include | (f) | ………… | ………… |
| water, soil, air, plants, culture, income, | (g) | ………… | ………… |
| relations, etc. Internal environment is direct relating to human health. | (h) | ………… | ………… |
Answer
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| (a) | happy | happiness |
| (b) | in | on |
| (c) | surrouned | surrounds |
| (d) | are | is |
| (e) | or | and |
| (f) | include | includes |
| (g) | direct | directly |
| (h) | relating | related |