English Grammar

Class IX
Chapter: Editing Errors
No. of multiple choice Questions: 10
Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which part of the sentence is incorrect?

Many Venezuelans / to the move/ lack legal status/ and need / international protection
and aid.

a) Many Venezuelans

b) to the move

c) lack legal status

d) and need International protection and aid

ANSWER: b) to the move

EXPLANATION: The correct phrase should be ‘on the move’. The correct sentence would
be ‘Many Venezuelans on the move lack legal status and need international protection and
aid’.

2. I’ve great memories of Delhi, so I was estatic to return to Delhi for another fun- filled
summer.

Choose the right option to correct the sentence given above.

a) Delete ‘so’

b) Change ‘was’ to ‘am’

c) Change ‘estatic’ to ‘ecstatic’

d) No change

ANSWER: c) Change ‘estatic’ to ‘ecstatic’

EXPLANATION: ‘Ecstatic’ means ‘feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful

excitement’. ‘Estatic’ is incorrect spelling of the word ‘ecstatic’.

3. How many mistakes are there in the given sentence?

The fish curry was to spicy too eat.

a) The fish curry was to spicy to eat.

b) The fish curry was two spicy too eat.

c) The fish curry was too spicy to eat.

d) No change

ANSWER: c) The fish curry was too spicy to eat.

EXPLANATION: The correct sentence should be ‘The fish curry was too spicy to eat’.

4. Which sentence is written correctly?

a) Every generation has to be persuaded to safeguard India’s unity, liberal democracy,

pluralism, secularism, and diversity.

b) Every generations has to be persuaded that India’s unity, liberal democracy, pluralism,
secularism, and free markets is important.

c) Every generation has to be persuaded that Indias unity, liberal democracy, pluralism,
secularism, and free markets is important.

d) All generation has to be persuade that India’s unity, liberal democracy, pluralism,
secularism, and free markets are important.

ANSWER: a) Every generation has to be persuaded to safeguard India’s unity, liberal

democracy, pluralism, secularism, and diversity.

EXPLANATION: In sentence (b), ‘generations’ and ‘is’ are incorrect; in sentence (c),
‘Indias’ and ‘is’ are incorrect; in sentence (d), ‘persuade’ is used incorrectly. Only sentence
(a) is correct.

5. Which sentence is written correctly?

a) The argument of these bills will remove intermediaries, and therefore make farmer’s well-
off, assumes that an unfair exchange is the biggest problem facing India’s farmers.

b) The argument that these bill will remove intermediaries, and therefore make farmers well-
off, assume that an unfair exchange is the biggest problem facing India’s farmers.

c) The argument that these bills will remove intermediaries, and therefore make farmers well-
off, assumes that an unfair exchange is the biggest problem facing India’s farmers.

d) The argument that this bills will remove intermediaries, and therefore made farmers well-
off, assumes that an unfair exchange is the biggest problem facing India’s farmers.

ANSWER: c) The argument that these bills will remove intermediaries, and therefore make
farmers well-off, assumes that an unfair exchange is the biggest problem facing India’s
farmers.
EXPLANATION: In sentence (a), ‘of’ and ‘farmer’s’ are incorrect; in sentence (b), ‘bill’ and
‘assume’ are incorrect; in sentence (d), ‘this’ and ‘made’ are incorrect. Only sentence (c) is
correct.

6. Correct the mistake in this paragraph:

In early 2009, Malala started to blog anonimusly on the Urdu language site of the
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). She wrote about life in the Swat Valley under
Taliban rule, and about her desire to go to school. Using the name “Gul Makai,” she
described being forced to stay at home, and she questioned the motives of the Taliban.

a) Change British Broadcasting Corporation to british broadcasting corporation

b) Change anonimusly to anonymously

c) Change motives to motive’s

d) Insert a comma after Malala

ANSWER: b) Change anonimusly to anonymously

EXPLANATION: The correct spelling is ‘anonymously’.

7. Correct the mistake in this paragraph:

During 2018, 1.4 million refugees returned home to Syria. Returnees face a reassuring
situation, including lack of infrastructure and services and danger from explosive
devices. About 6.2 million Syrians remain displaced inside the country.

a) Change Syria to syria

b) Change Syrians to Syrian’s

c) Change reassuring to daunting

d) Change displaced to misplaced

ANSWER: c) Change reassuring to daunting

EXPLANATION: The correct word is ‘daunting’ which means ‘seeming difficult to deal
with in prospect’.

8. Which part of the sentence has an error in it?

I was sitting in the restaurant waiting for her since seven o’clock.

a) I had been sitting in the restaurant waiting for her since seven o’clock.

b) I shall be sitting in the restaurant waiting for her since seven o’clock.

c) I was being sitting in the restaurant waiting for her since seven o’clock.
d) I were sitting in the restaurant waiting for her since seven o’clock.

ANSWER: a) I was sitting

EXPLANATION: The correct sentence would be ‘I had been sitting in the restaurant waiting
for her since seven o’clock’ because it is past perfect tense.

9. Choose the sentence that has no errors in grammar usage.

a) Polar bear, are so well insulated that they cannot be spotting with night-vision goggles,
who pick up radiated heat.

b) Polar bears, is so well insulating that they cannot be spot with night-vision goggles, that
pick up radiated heat.

c) Polar bears, are so well insulated that they cannot be spotted with night-vision goggles,
which pick up radiated heat.

d) Polar bears will be so well insulated that they cannot be spot with night-vision goggles,
what pick up radiated heat.

ANSWER: c) Polar bears, are so well insulated that they cannot be spotted with night-vision
goggles, which pick up radiated heat.

EXPLANATION: The correct sentence would be ‘Polar bears, are so well insulated that they
cannot be spotted with night-vision goggles, which pick up radiated heat’.

10. Which part of the sentence has an error in it:

The Principal welcomed / all the parents/ and gave an outline of the activities/
performing by the school.

a) The Principal welcomed

b) all the parents

c) and gave an outline of the activities

d) performing by the school

ANSWER: d) performing by the school

EXPLANATION: The correct phrase should be ‘performed by the school’. The correct
sentence would be ‘The Principal welcomed all the parents and gave an outline of the
activities performed by the school’.