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

 English Grammar - Editing Exercise (Part - 6)

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)

	Error	Correction
Sachn Tendulkar is a 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. 

	Error	Correction
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: 

	Error	Correction
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:

	Error	Correction
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:

	Error	Correction
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

👉See Also:

Editing Exercise-1
Editing Exercise-2
Editing Exercise - 3
Editing Exercise - 4
Editing Exercise - 5
Cloze Test and Error Correction