OMISSION EXERCISE-37
In the following passages, 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 against the correct line number. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined. The first one has been done for you.
| Before | Word | After | ||
| It is not true the air gets gradually | e.g. | true | that | the |
| colder higher up you go. It does this | (a) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| upto height of about seven miles, | (b) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| For the lower layers of the atmosphere | (c) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| warmed by heat radiated the ground. | (d) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| In the next layer up, temperature remains | (e) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| almost the same, but it drops a chilly | (f) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| 40°F about eighteen miles. | ||||
| There the temperature to rise because of | (g) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| some gases absorb heat directly from the sun. | (h) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
Answers–
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | colder | the | higher |
| (b) | upto | a | height |
| (c) | ——– | atmosphere | is |
| (d) | radiated | by | the |
| (e) | up | the | temperature |
| (f) | drops | to | a |
| (g) | temperature | begins | to |
| (h) | gases | that | absorb |
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OMISSION EXERCISE-38
In the following passages, 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 against the correct line number. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined. The first one has been done for you
| Before | Word | After | ||
| On the banks of Ganga, where | e.g. | of | the | Ganga |
| it emerges of the Himalayan foot-hills | (a) | …… | …… | …… |
| there are long stretches forests. There are | (b) | …… | …… | …… |
| villages the fringe of the forest inhabited | (c) | …… | …… | …… |
| by bamboo cutters and farmers. This area an | (d) | …… | …… | …… |
| ideal hunting ground and so animals | (e) | …… | …… | …… |
| are not numerous as they used to be. | (f) | …… | …… | …… |
| The trees, too, have disappearing slowly | (g) | …… | …… | …… |
| and as the forest recedes the animals lose food and shelter. | (h) | …… | …… | …… |
Answers–
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | emerges | out | of |
| (b) | stretches | of | forests |
| (c) | village | on | the |
| (d) | area | is | an |
| (e) | so | the | animals |
| (f) | not | so | numerous |
| (g) | have | been | disappearing |
| (h) | lose | both | food |
