EDITING
Q. The following passages have not been edited. There is one error in each line.
Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct
question number. The first one has been done as an example.
1. Her duties of the day was over.
She had scrub the floor of the kitchen,
wash the vessels and put them in a
shining row on an wooden shelf, returned
the short scrubbing broom to it’s corner and
closed the kitchen window.
e.g.
(a)
(b)
(c)
was
were
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(d)
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2. Our country can became a heaven
for tourists. It has the rich cultural
heritage and natural beauties of flora and fauna.
3. Economics is nothing but a way to
solving problems of
allocation of resources. Human want are
graded in nature.
This means that a person will be more
concern about
procurement of food for his surviving
rather than buying a luxury car.
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(b)
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(c)
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(d)
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4. After all a sculptor’s labour had come
to a end. He sat back, wiped
e.g.
(a)
a
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the
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e.g.
is
was
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(b)
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(c)
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(d)
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6. Walt Disney was our hero. He
left us a legacy that must
be enjoy time and again. He
know how to entertain us so well.
He develop the process of creating
animated films.
e.g.
(a)
(b)
(c)
was
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is
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(d)
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7. My childhood memories is very sweet.
I was not the mischievous or troublesome
child. My favourite game is to line
up all the chair in the house and play
by being the teacher tutoring all the
invisible pupils.
e.g.
(a)
(b)
(c)
is
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are
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(d)
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the perspiration from his face and survey (b)
its handiwork with great satisfaction. As
(c)
he
looking on, he was overwhelmed by the
(d)
image.
5. Neil Armstrong is the commander for
Apollo 11.
He were the first to walk over
the moon. What many people do not
knew
is that unlike most of their fellow
astronauts, he was the civilian and not
part of the military.
8. The driver of the jeep were treated
e.g.
were
was
with respect due to any other members of my
father’s office.
As small children we were teach not to call him
by his name. We have to call him ‘dada’.
(a)
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(b)
(d)
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9. “Either you or your friend Shalu have stolen my note
(a)
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book”, shouted Shreya. “Neither I nor my friend were
(b)
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your culprit”, said Shalu. We both are not in the class since
(c)
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morning. We are out for the annual day function.
(d)
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But who are the culprit then? asked Shreya.
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I don’t know that but we both were not guilty.
(f)
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10. My day begin at five O'clock in the morning.
(a)
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It have been so since the last forty years
(b)
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except for the two years in which I am
(c)
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very ill. I woke up at the sound of an
(d) …………………..
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alarm clock bought in 1952. Since then until today, it had never (e)
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let me down. My routine, however turn topsy-turvy
(f)
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in holidays when I could not sleep till ten o'clock.
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When I retire on two years' time, I hope I must be
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able to continue this practice.
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