Exercise-1
In the following paragraph there is one mistake in each line. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided.The first one has been done for you as an example.
| Incorrect | Correct | ||
| A rainy day in summer bring relief to all | |||
| human beings and also to animal. | (a) | ……….. | ……….. |
| A farmer welcome the rain because | (b) | ……….. | ……….. |
| it gives new life for his crops. Children | (c) | ……….. | ……….. |
| come out to play on the overflowing streets. | (d) | ……….. | ……….. |
| They splash water. Elders took tea and gossip | (e) | ……….. | ……….. |
| in a cool breeze. Birds also welcome the | (f) | ……….. | ……….. |
| first showers. Butterflies drown them in | (g) | ……….. | ……….. |
| muddy water. Everyone are in a happy mood. | (h) | ……….. | ……….. |
Answers:-
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| (a) | animal | animals |
| (b) | welcome | welcomes |
| (c) | for | to |
| (d) | on | in |
| (e) | took | take |
| (f) | a | the |
| (g) | them | themselves |
| (h) | are | is |
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Exercise-2
In the following paragraph, there is one mistake in each line. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided. The first one has been done for you as an example.
| Incorrect | Correct | ||
| The lion has been called a king of beasts. | |||
| At India, the lion is given protection. | (a) | ………… | ………… |
| All over the world, the wildlife is disappear fast. | (b) | ………… | ………… |
| It is the lion that is with danger of | (c) | ………… | ………… |
| extinction. This aren’t because of lack of | (d) | ………… | ………… |
| courage of the lion. All lions are the much | (e) | ………… | ………… |
| fearless in-the beasts of prey. | (f) | ………… | ………… |
| The lion live in forests and | (g) | ………… | ………… |
| is hunt. | (h) | ………… | ………… |
Answers:-
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| (a) | At | in |
| (b) | disappear | disappears |
| (c) | with | in |
| (d) | aren’t | isn’t |
| (e) | much | most |
| (f) | in | among |
| (g) | live | lives |
| (h) | hont | haunted |
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Exercise-3
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 | ||
| Some people in France has made it | (a) | ……. | ……. |
| a carrier. You can hire a jovialist | (b) | ……. | ……. |
| who crack jokes and laughs and | (c) | ……. | ……. |
| promised to make you dissolve | (d) | ……. | ……. |
| on helpless laughter. A word in | (e) | ……. | ……. |
| caution. Although laugh is a | (f) | ……. | ……. |
| good exercise in toning up the | (g) | ……. | |
| facial muscle, laughing at others is | (h) | ……. | ……. |
| bad habit. |
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Exercise- 4
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 | ||
| One day he invite me to his home | (a) | ……… | ……… |
| for a meal. His wife was horrifying | (b) | ……… | ……… |
| at the idea of the Muslim boy being | (c) | ……… | ……… |
| invited to dine on her ritually pure | (d) | ……… | ……… |
| kitchen. She refuse to serve me | (e) | ……… | ……… |
| in his kitchen. Sivasubramaniam was | (f) | ……… | ……… |
| not perturb, nor did he get angry | (g) | ……… | ……… |
| on his wife. He served me with his own hands. | (h) | ……… | ……… |
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Exercise-5
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 | ||
| Once the traveller was standing on | eg. | the | a |
| the road under extremely heat sun. | (a) | ………… | ………… |
| He started searching of a shade. A | (b) | ………… | ………… |
| tree gave him shade and than the | (c) | ………… | ………… |
| traveller felt very relaxed that he felt | (d) | ………… | ………… |
| like staying with the tree. He thought of build | (e) | ………… | ………… |
| a home near the tree. Now, he needs wood | (f) | ………… | ………… |
| for his house. Then he begged for few wood | (g) | ………… | ………… |
| from the tree to make his axe. The tree gave it. He cutted the tree | (h) | ………… | ………… |
| and made his house. But then the | (i) | ………… | |
| house was build, the man cried as | (j) | ………… | ………… |
| he felt lonely or hot. | (k) | ………… | ………… |
Answer
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| (a) | heat | hot |
| (b) | of | for |
| (c) | than | then |
| (d) | very | so |
| (e) | build | building |
| (f) | needs | needed |
| (g) | few | some |
| (h) | cutted | cut |
| (i) | then | when |
| (j) | build | built |
| (k) | or | and |
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Exercise-6
The following passages have not been edited. There is an error in each of the lines against which numbering is given. Write the incorrect word and the correction in the space provided. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied.
| Incorrect | Correct | ||
| Flamingoes flock in Kachchh every year. | e.g. | in | to |
| It come there firom various parts of the | (a) | ………… | ………… |
| world a year to breed. Flamingo city | (b) | ………… | ………… |
| is a island situated in the middle of the | (c) | ………… | ………… |
| Rana of Kachchh, known to the biggest | (d) | ………… | ………… |
| breeding ground for flamingoes, and today | (e) | ………… | ………… |
| it is strewn in bodies of hundreds of chicks. | (f) | ………… | ………… |
| The parents has fled the island due to lack | (g) | ………… | ………… |
| of food, plankton, algae and small fish what are food for the flamingoes. | (h) | ………… | ………… |
Answer
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| (a) | It | They |
| (b) | a | every |
| (c) | a | an |
| (d) | to | as |
| (e) | and | but |
| (f) | in | with |
| (g) | has | have |
| (h) | what | which |