EDITING PASSAGE- EXERCISE-21
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.
| INCORRECT | CORRECT | ||
| Yesterday when we was driving through | (a) | ………… | ………… |
| a forest we saw a deer on a right side of the road. | (b) | ………… | ………… |
| My friend brings out his Camera | (c) | ………… | ………… |
| but the deer quickly jumped at | (d) | ………… | ………… |
| a pit. We stopped to help the deer get into of the pit. | (e) | ………… | ………… |
| A man tied a rope to its waist and | (f) | ………… | ………… |
| go into the pit and lifted it out. | (g) | ………… | ………… |
| It ran away as faster as it could. | (h) | ………… | ………… |
Answer
| INCORRECT | CORRECT | |
| (a) | was | were |
| (b) | on a | on the |
| (c) | brings | brought |
| (d) | at | into |
| (e) | into | out |
| (f) | its | his |
| (g) | go | went |
| (h) | faster | fast |
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EDITING PASSAGE- EXERCISE-22
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 has been done for you as an example.
| INCORRECT | CORRECT | ||
| One winter the farmer found a | e.g. | the | a |
| snake stiff and froze with cold. | (a) | ……… | ……… |
| He had compassion in it, and | (b) | ……… | ……… |
| taking it up, place it on his | (c) | ……… | ……… |
| bosom. The snake was quick | (d) | ……… | ……… |
| revived by a warmth, and | (e) | ……… | ……… |
| resuming its naturally instinct, | (f) | ……… | ……… |
| bit its benefactor. “Oh” cry the | (g) | ……… | ……… |
| farmer with his latest breath, | (h) | ……… | ……… |
| “I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel”. |
Answer
| INCORRECT | CORRECT | |
| (a) | froze | frozen |
| (b) | in | on |
| (c) | place | placed |
| (d) | basom, | quick bosom. quickly |
| (e) | a | the |
| (f) | naturally | natural |
| (g) | cry | cried |
| (h) | latest | last |
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