EXERCISE -1
In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it in the space provided.
| Before | Word | After | ||
| According to estimates of National | (a) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| Ganga Authority only 1000 litre sewerage is | (b) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| treated daily against 3000 litres goes into | (c) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| the main Ganga river. Moreover the 12,000 | (d) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| Million litres of sewerage that goes the’ | (e) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| Ganga Basin, 4000 million litres treated. | (f) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| Number settlements and industries | (g) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| located along river, pollute it. | (h) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
Answer
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | Of | the | National |
| (b) | Litre | of | sewerage |
| (c) | litres | that | goes |
| (d) | moreover | of | the |
| (e) | goes | into | the |
| (f) | liters | is | treated |
| (g) | number | of | settlements |
| (h) | along | the | river |
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EXERCISE -2
In the following passage, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and after it. The first one has been done for you as an example.
| Before | Word | After | ||
| It must have around midnight when I drove | e.g. | have | been | around |
| home. As I approached the gates the | (a) | …………. | …………. | …………. |
| bungalow, I switched the headlights of the car | (b) | …………. | …………. | …………. |
| so that the beam wouldn’t swing the bedroom | (c) | …………. | …………. | …………. |
| window. There was pin-drop silence in bungalow. | (d) | …………. | …………. | …………. |
Answers
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | gates | of | the |
| (b) | switched | off | the |
| (c) | swing | in | the |
| (d) | in | the | bungalow |
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