OMISSION EXERCISE-43
In the following passages, one word has been omitted in each tine. 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 tine number. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined
| Before | Word | After | ||
| I never been in a large city, | e.g. | never | had | been |
| and this rather added my misery. | (a) | …… | …… | …… |
| when I reached Richmond. I completely | (b) | …… | …… | …… |
| out of money. I had not single | (c) | …… | …… | …… |
| acquaintance in place; and, | (d) | …… | …… | …… |
| being unused to city ways, I not | (e) | …… | …… | …… |
| know where go. I asked at several | (f) | …… | …… | …… |
| places for lodging, they all wanted | (g) | …… | …… | …… |
| money, and that was what did not have. | (h) | …… | …… | …… |
Answers–
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | added | to | my |
| (b) | I | was | completely |
| (c) | not | a | single |
| (d) | in | the | place |
| (e) | I | did | not |
| (f) | where | to | go |
| (g) | lodging , | but | they |
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OMISSION EXERCISE-44
In the following passages, one word has been omitted in each tine. 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 tine number. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined.
| Before | Word | After | ||
| He sat up late, smoking pacing the floor | e.g. | smoking | and | pacing |
| and when he went bed himself he slept | (a) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| He got and moved into the | (b) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| spare room in rear of the house. | (c) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| I in the room just above. I could | (d) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| hear him talking bitterly himself | (e) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| about way they had tucked in the sheets. | (f) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| As never did anything in silence, | (g) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| his resentment burst in groans. | (h) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
Answers–
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | went | into | bed |
| (b) | got | up | and |
| (c) | in | the | rere |
| (d) | I | was | in |
| (e) | bitterly | to | himself |
| (f) | about | the | way |
| (g) | As | he | never |
| (h) | burst | out | in |
