Exercise- 129
There is an error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correct one against the corresponding blanks:
| Incorrect | Correct | ||
| Some political thinkers thinks that | (a) | …………… | …………… |
| liberty and equality couldn’t go together. | (b) | …………… | …………… |
| They think that liberty implies a freedom | (c) | …………… | …………… |
| to do what one can like to do. | (d) | …………… | …………… |
| This is true if freedom is interpret | (e) | …………… | …………… |
| on its absolute sense to mean that | (f) | …………… | …………… |
| each individual shall be free | (g) | …………… | …………… |
| according to her opportunities, | (h) | …………… | …………… |
| there will be chaos. |
Answers:-
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| (a) | thinks | think |
| (b) | couldn’t | can’t |
| (c) | a | the |
| (d) | can | would |
| (e) | interpret | interpreted |
| (f) | on | in |
| (g) | each | every |
| (h) | her | his |
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Exercise- 130.
There is an error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correct one against the corresponding blanks:
| Incorrect | Correct | ||
| The saint get a piece of chalk equal to the | e.g. | get | got |
| lump in opium and told the opium eater | (a) | ……… | ……… |
| that he could continue eating opium but | (b) | ……… | ……… |
| should not took more than the weight | (c) | ……… | ……… |
| in the chalk each day. The opium eater was | (d) | ……… | ……… |
| quiet happy but he was also told that | (e) | ……… | ……… |
| everyday he shall write ‘one’ three times on a | (f) | ……… | ……… |
| blackboard with that chalk. In that manner, the | (g) | ……… | ……… |
| chalk was reduce and so was his habit. | (h) | ……… | ……… |
Answers:-
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| (a) | in | of |
| (b) | could | may |
| (c) | took | take |
| (d) | in | of |
| (e) | quiet | quite |
| (f) | shall | should |
| (g) | that | this |
| (h) | reduce | reduced |
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