Editing and Omission Exercises for Class 8 with answers Ex- 33 & 34
Exercise-33
The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided. The first correction has been done as an example.
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Pollution is one of a most serious problems facing humanity
today. This problem was fairly complicated
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for much of pollution is caused of objects
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and activities that benefit mankind. Two-thirds in
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Delhi’s appalling atmospheric pollution is caused on vehicles.
The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided. The first correction has been done as an example.
Incorrect
Correct
The Band-Aid was invent in New Jersey.
invent
invented
Dickson was fretted as his wife Josephine, cut
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herself again and again on working in the
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kitchen. One day while he was wrapping his
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wound once again on a bulky bandage of gauze
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and tape, he was struck by an idea. He put some
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gauze on a strip of the medical tape and the
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Band-Aid was born. Billion of cuts and scrapes
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later the Band-Aid is celebrating it’s 75th birthday.
