1.Edit the passage underlining the mistake present in every line by writing the correct word in the blank space.My day begins on five O'clock in the morning a) _____
It has been so since the last forty years b) ______
except for the two years of which I was c) _______
very ill. I wake up at the sound of an d) ______
alarm clock bought at 1952. e) _______
From then until today, it has never f) _______
let me down. My routine, however turns topsy-turvy
in holidays when I cannot sleep for ten O'clock. I have g) ______ maintained a fairly regular routine over my working years. h) _______
When I retire on two years' time, I hope I will be i) _______
able to continue this practice.
2.The following passage is incomplete. One word has been omitted in every line against which there is a blank. Indicate the place where the word has to be inserted with a / and write the word in the space provided.
Parmesh and his friends planning a trip a) _____
during the summer vacations. While all of them b) _____
keen to get away from the heat, none them were able to suggest which place to visit. c) _____
It only draw of lots which could finally decide the matter. d) _____
They decided on Ooty as it neither too far away nor too crowded.
e) _____
The date of departure and the duration of their stay still to be decided. f) _____
The announcement of their final exam date sheet still two weeks away. g) _____
Until then, each of them resolved h) _____
collect information about hill station. i) _____
3.Underline each error and write the correction in the space provided.
One morning, the Nawab call a) _________
his minister and said him b) _________
that I wanted the length and c) _________
breadth from the earth d) _________
measured. He also feel the e) _________
need to have the stars on the f) _________
sky counted. The minister says g) _________
that the task he have been h) _________
set being impossible. i) _________
4.The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which there is a blank. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided.
I entered the manager's office and sat down.
I have just lost five hundred rupees and I felt very upset. a) ______
"I leave the money in my desk," I said, b) ______
"and it is not there now". The manager was very sympathetic
but he can do nothing. "Everyone loses money these days", c) ______
he said, He start to complain about this wicked world, d) ______
but is interrupted by a knock at the door. e) ______
A girl came in and puts an envelope on his desk. f) ______
It contains five hundred rupees. "I found this g) ______
outside this gentleman's room," she said.
"Well! I say to the manager, "there is still some h) ______
honesty in this world !"
