EDITING EXERCISE
The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the
incorrect word and the correction as given below against the correct blank numbers.
Remember to underline the word that you have supplied:
Specimen passage
An inter-school football match is been eg. been being
organised among our school and City (a) …………… ……………
Montessori School. The match will be
playing (b) …………… ……………
on 18th March on are school grounds (c) …………… ……………
since 5 p.m. onwards. (d) …………… ……………
Incorrect Word Correct Word
(a) among between
(b) playing played
(c) are our
(d) since from
Passage #1
You will have your hair cut very short in the e.g. will must
first month. After that you might grow it (a) ……… ………
longer but it shall never touch your collar. (b) ……… ………
Your uniform should be neat but clean too. (c) ……… ………
A student is expect to be neat and clean. (d) ……… ………
Passage #2
My uncle who was addicted of letter writing e.g. of to
were the role model in our extended family. (a) ………… …………
He lived in a village and often judged peoples (b) ………… …………
in the basis of how quickly his letters were (c) ………… …………
replied to. Uncle spent a hour every morning (d) ………… …………
writing detailed letters. He keeps a small box (e) ………… …………
next to him. It contained a postal stationery, (f) ………… …………
pens or an old paling dog-eared address book. (g) ………… …………
This book had numerous arrows for signify (h) ………… …………
changes in addresses.
Passage # 3
e.g
You are endowed of certain naughtiness as a child. . of with
Keep it alive. Humour greased all tough (a) ………… …………
situations. One which has humour can (b) ………… …………
sail through any conflict. Humour is an (c) ………… …………
buffer that save you from humiliation. If (d) ………… …………
you refuse to been humiliated, you become (e) ………… …………
invincible. Humour bring everyone together (f) ………… …………
where humiliation tears them apart. In a (g) ………… …………
society tearing with humiliation, humour is like a
breath of fresh air. (h) ………… …………
Passage #4
Developed on India over 5000 years e.g. on in
On August 5, 1996 Leander Paes becomes the first (a) ………… …………
Indian to won an individual medal in (b) ………… …………
44 years when he defeated Fernando of Brazil on (c) ………… …………
an excited match at Atlanta. Leander’s father (d) ………… …………
have won a bronze medal in the Munich (e) ………… …………
Olympic 1972 in hockey. But Leander gets (f) ………… …………
it in a individual event. Later, he dedicated (g) ………… …………
the medal for his coach for helping him out. (h) ………… …………
Passage #5
In the last few decades, their has been e.g. their there
a very significance rise in the number of (a) ………… …………
lower middle and middle class woman (b) ………… …………
who seek employment for supplement their (c) ………… …………
household income. While there are little (d) ………… …………
doubt that women from the
lower ranks of society has to work (e) ………… …………
in the fields or on petty jobs to sustain (f) ………… …………
themself and their families, there were (g) ………… …………
strong objections to allow women to step out off (h) ………… …………
the house to earn a living.
Passage # 6
If you likes hiking or motor biking e.g. likes like
the quaint little town of Lachung (a) ………… …………
nestled among the snow-cap peaks of (b) ………… …………
the middle Himalayas might just been the (c) ………… …………
perfect choice. A best way to get to (d) ………… …………
Lachung are to take a train or fly to (e) ………… …………
Gangtok and than hire a cab to take (f) ………… …………
you to the village. Keep on mind (g) ………… …………
that accommodation facilities are basic-there is (h) ………… …………
only three hotels, and a lone resort.
Passage # 7
Owls are predators-they hunted the food e.g. hunted hunt
that they eat. Owls hunt for mice and another (a) ………… …………
small mammals, insects or even fish. (b) ………… …………
Owls are well adapt for hunting. (c) ………… …………
Their soft, fluffy feathers makes their flight (d) ………… …………
nearly silence. They have very (e) ………… …………
good hearing, who helps them (f) ………… …………
to hunt well on the darkness. The sharp (g) ………… …………
hooked beaks and claws of the owl makes It (h) ………… …………
very easy to tear apart the prey quickly.
Passage # 8
The greenhouse affect makes the earth e.g. ………… …………
appropriate for peoples to live on. (a) ………… …………
Without it, the earth should be freezing, (b) ………… …………
or on the another hand it would be (c) ………… …………
burning hot. It would be freezing on (d) ………… …………
night and burning during the day.
Although the greenhouse effect make (e) ………… …………
the earth able to have people living in it, (f) ………… …………
if there gets to be many gas, the earth (g) ………… …………
will get unusually warmer, and much plants, (h) ………… …………
animals and people will die.
Passage # 9
Our independence in 1947 is won against the backdrop
in the great e.g. is was
………
Gandhiji emphasize (a) … …………
that the first and foremost ………
duty of independence India (b) … …………
………
was to create a environment (c) … …………
which enabled every ………
Indian for earn his or her daily (d) … …………
bread. Gandhiji was ………
against making people beggar (e) … …………
and that was why he stressed the need for ………
opportunities to earn rather then (f) … …………
………
give in food on grounds of (g) … …………
………
charity and patronage. (h) … …………
