Saturday 19 September 2020

English Grammar - Editing Exercise (Part - 6) (#editningexercises)(#class10English)(#eduvictors)(#class9English)

 English Grammar - Editing Exercise (Part - 6)

English Grammar - Editing Exercise (Part - 6) (#editningexercises)(#class10English)(#eduvictors)(#class9English)


Q1. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided. The first correction has been done as an example. (4 marks)

 ErrorCorrection
Sachn Tendulkar is best__a____the__
cricketer in India. He has play for _________ _________
more than 20 years on the country _________ _________
He retired from the games _________ _________
last year. He is know for _________ _________
his skill in batting or fielding. _________ _________



Q2. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided. The first correction has been done as an example. 

 ErrorCorrection
Have you ever ate a food that might kill you?__ate____eaten__
That is what thousands of Koreans have done every year _________ _________
when they sit down to delicious meal of fugu fish. _________ _________
In English, fugu is known like puffer fish. _________ _________
There are above 120 species of puffers in the world’s oceans. _________ _________
They are relative small, and they have spikes _________ _________
who pop up when they sense danger. _________ _________
Through this spikes the puffers can inject a deadly venom _________ _________
into their attackers, and it is this venom who _________ _________
make the fugu such a potentially dangerous fish. _________ _________


Q3: 

 ErrorCorrection
One day a wonderful plate full in gold_________________
fell from Heaven into a courtyard _________ _________
of a temple at Banaras; so on the _________ _________
plate these words were inscribe. _________ _________
“A gift from Heaven to he who _________ _________
loves better”. The priests at once _________ _________
made a announcement that everyday _________ _________
at noon, all which would like _________ _________
to claimed the plate should come. _________ _________


Q4:

 ErrorCorrection
The modern student understand the _________________
importance for physical exercise. _________ _________
He spend one or two hours daily _________ _________
on the open air where he takes _________ _________
part on exercises when work _________ _________
wonders by his health. _________ _________


Q5:

 ErrorCorrection
According to tradition Gautama Buddha sit _________________
in meditation in the Bo tree at _________ _________
Bodh Gaya. Unfortunately an original tree _________ _________
has disappeared and is replace _________ _________
through a successor-the Peepal tree _________ _________


Answers:
1: 
  (a) play  - played
  (b) on     - for
  (c)  games - game
  (d) know  - known
  (e) skill - skills

2:
  (a) ate  - eaten
  (b) have done  - do
  (c) delicious - a delicious
  (d) like - as
  (e) above - over
  (f) relative - relatively
  (g) who - that/which
  (h)  this - these
  (i) who - that/which
  (j) make - makes

3: 
  (a) in - of
  (b) a  - the
  (c) so - and
  (d) inscribe - inscribed
  (e) he - him/one
  (f) better - best
  (g) a  - an
  (h) which - who
  (i) claimed - claim

4: 
  (a) understand - understands
  (b) for - of
  (c) spend - spends
  (d) on - in 
  (e) when - which
  (f) by - for

5:
  (a) sit - sat
  (b) in - under 
  (c) an - the 
  (d) replace  -  replaced
  (e) through - by


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