OMISSION Exercise-47
In the following passages one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the words that come before and after it. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined as shown in example:
| Before | Word | After | ||
| Thomas Hardy was younger contemporary of | e.g. | was | a | younger |
| Charles Dickens. His style rather differ | (a) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| but he was influenced Dickens and achieved | (b) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| wide literary acclaim in own right, both | (c) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| as novelist and a poet. While Dicknes’ novels | (d) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| tended to set in an urban environment, | (e) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| Hardy’s focus was on the countryside its decline. | (f) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| Many his works are set in Wessex; a partly | (g) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| real, partly imagined, rural region harked back to England. | (h) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
Answers:
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | style | was | rather |
| (b) | influenced | by | Dickens |
| (c) | in | his | own |
| (d) | as | a | novelist |
| (e) | to | be | set |
| (f) | countryside | and | its |
| (g) | Many | of | his |
| (h) | region | that | harked |
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Exercise-48
In the following passages, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the words that come before and after it. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined as shown in the example:
| Before | Word | After | ||
| Thomas Hardy was younger contemporary of | e.g. | was | a | younger |
| Charles Dickens. His style rather differ | (a) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| but he was influenced Dickens and achieved | (b) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| wide literary acclaim in own right, both | (c) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| as novelist and a poet. While Dicknes’ novels | (d) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| tended to set in an urban environment, | (e) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| Hardy’s focus was on the countryside its decline. | (f) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| Many his works are set in Wessex; a partly | (g) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| real, partly imagined, rural region harked | (h) | ………… | ………… | ………… |
| back to England. |
Answers:
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | style | was | rather |
| (b) | influenced | by | Dickens |
| (c) | in | his | own |
| (d) | as | a | novelist |
| (e) | to | be | set |
| (f) | countryside | and | its |
| (g) | Many | of | his |
| (h) | region | that | harked |
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Exercise-48
| Before | Word | After | ||
| The two new sports 2016 Olympic Games | e.g. | sports | for | 2016 |
| are golf and rugby sevens. There two | (a) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| spots for sports initially seven sports began | (b) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| the bidding for inclusion the 2016 program. | (c) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| Baseball and softball, which dropped from | (d) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| the program 2005, Karate, squash, golf, | (e) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| roller sports rugby union all were | (f) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| included. Leaders the seven sports held | (g) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| presentations front of the IOC executive | (h) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| board in June 2009. |
Answers:
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | There | were | two |
| (b) | sports | and | initially |
| (c) | inclusion | in | the |
| (d) | which | were | dropped |
| (e) | program | in | 2005 |
| (f) | sports | and | rugby |
| (g) | Leaders | of | the |
| (h) | presentation | in | front |
