EDITING PASSAGE- EXERCISE-7
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 one has been done for you as an example.
| Incorrect | Correct | ||
| Once the traveller was standing on | eg. | the | a |
| the road under extremely heat sun. | (a) | ………… | ………… |
| He started searching of a shade. A | (b) | ………… | ………… |
| tree gave him shade and than the | (c) | ………… | ………… |
| traveller felt very relaxed that he felt | (d) | ………… | ………… |
| like staying with the tree. He thought of build | (e) | ………… | ………… |
| a home near the tree. Now, he needs wood | (f) | ………… | ………… |
| for his house. Then he begged for few wood | (g) | ………… | ………… |
| from the tree to make his axe. The tree gave it. He cutted the tree | (h) | ………… | ………… |
| and made his house. But then the | (i) | ………… | |
| house was build, the man cried as | (j) | ………… | ………… |
| he felt lonely or hot. | (k) | ………… | ………… |
Answer
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| (a) | heat | hot |
| (b) | of | for |
| (c) | than | then |
| (d) | very | so |
| (e) | build | building |
| (f) | needs | needed |
| (g) | few | some |
| (h) | cutted | cut |
| (i) | then | when |
| (j) | build | built |
| (k) | or | and |
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EDITING PASSAGE- EXERCISE-8
The following passages have not been edited. There is an error in each of the lines against which numbering is given. Write the incorrect word and the correction in the space provided. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied.
| Incorrect | Correct | ||
| Flamingoes flock in Kachchh every year. | e.g. | in | to |
| It come there firom various parts of the | (a) | ………… | ………… |
| world a year to breed. Flamingo city | (b) | ………… | ………… |
| is a island situated in the middle of the | (c) | ………… | ………… |
| Rana of Kachchh, known to the biggest | (d) | ………… | ………… |
| breeding ground for flamingoes, and today | (e) | ………… | ………… |
| it is strewn in bodies of hundreds of chicks. | (f) | ………… | ………… |
| The parents has fled the island due to lack | (g) | ………… | ………… |
| of food, plankton, algae and small fish what are food for the flamingoes. | (h) | ………… | ………… |
Answer
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| (a) | It | They |
| (b) | a | every |
| (c) | a | an |
| (d) | to | as |
| (e) | and | but |
| (f) | in | with |
| (g) | has | have |
| (h) | what | which |
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