Exercise-121
The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in the space provided. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied as shown.
| Incorrect | Correct | ||
| There was a king. He used to ask three question | e.g. | ||
| of all the people who came to him. The | (a) | ……………… | ……………… |
| first question is: Who is the best of all humans? | (b) | ……………… | ……………… |
| The second was: What is a best time? And | (c) | ……………… | ……………… |
| the third: What is the best in all actions? | (d) | ……………… | ……………… |
| The king was very anxious to know a answer | (e) | ……………… | ……………… |
| to these questions. One day he went to a forest | (f) | ……………… | ……………… |
| and was moving about the hills or plains. | (g) | ……………… | ……………… |
| He saw a ashram and wanted to take some rest there. | (h) | ……………… | ……………… |
Answers:-
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| (a) | of | from |
| (b) | is | was |
| (c) | all | as |
| (d) | in | of |
| (e) | a | the |
| (f) | a | the |
| (g) | or | and |
| (h) | a | an |
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Exercise-122
The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in the space provided. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied as shown.
| Incorrect | Correct | ||
| The king reached aashram. A sadhu | e.g. | a | the |
| was watering some plants. A sadhu saw that | (a) | …………… | …………… |
| a king was tired. He stopped watering | (b) | …………… | …………… |
| the plants; ran up to the king or gave | (c) | …………… | …………… |
| him some fruits and cold water. On that | (d) | …………… | …………… |
| time, a wounded man with bruises all over the body is | (e) | …………… | …………… |
| brought to an ashram by another sadhu. | (f) | …………… | …………… |
| The first sadhu saw this, he go to the | (g) | …………… | …………… |
| injured and cleaned their wounds, and gave | (h) | …………… | …………… |
| him some herbs. |
Answers:-
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| (a) | a | the |
| (b) | a | the |
| (c) | or | and |
| (d) | on | At |
| (e) | is | was |
| (f) | an | the |
| (g) | go | went |
| (h) | their | his |
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