English Grammar - Editing Exercise-1

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Editing Exercise
Exercise 1:

England has been long famous for her dramatist,    a)……………
the greatest of who was William Shakespeare.    b)……………
It is hard to find the educated man in    c)………………
the English speaking world whom has not heard    d)………………
for his name. The actor and playwright    e)……………
born more than 400 years ago had    f)………………
become not only for Englishman but for    g)……………
the whole world chief symbol for    h)………………
British culture. He is a dramatist and a poet.    .


Answers:

a) dramatist- dramatists

b) who - whom

c) the - an

d) whom - who

e) for - of

f) had - has

g) Englishman - Englishmen

h) for - of




Exercise 2:

About a year 1900, a small, dark haired boy    a)……………
name Charles Chaplin was often seen    b)……………
waiting outside the back entrance    c)………………
of London theatres. He looks thin and    d)………………
hungry but his blue eyes was determined.    e)……………
He could sing or dance. His parents    f)………………

were music hall performers but    g)……………

he has been born into the life of    h)………………
the theatre.    .


Answers:

a) a year- the year

b) name – named

c) entrance – entrances

d) looks – looked

e) was – were

f) or – and

g) but – and

h) has - had


Exercise 3:


In April 12, 1961, major Yuri Gagarin    a)……………

become the first man ever to venture    b)……………
in space. He did not know for certain    c)………………

beforehand that he is to be chosen.    d)………………
The Russian had three possible candidates    e)……………
ready but although Gagarin was first    f)………………

in the list, the choice was not definitely    g)……………
made until an early morning of April 12.    h)………………




Answers:


a) in – on

b) become – became

c) in – into

d) is – was

e) Russian – Russians

f) But – and

g) In – on

h) an – the

Exercise 4:


Educationist today are overwhelmingly    a)……………
concern about the future of the youngsters.    b)……………
The common complaint is students doesn’t    c)………………
study; they are not interested. Some blames    d)………………
exposure to the media, others feel that the   
present generation are not serious enough.    e)………………

The CBSE expresses this concern of    f)……………
reviewing the syllabus for time to time. The    g)………………
idea is to build a complete personality of  an individual    h)……………


Answers:
a) educationist – educationists
b) concern – concerned
c) doesn’t – don’t
d) blames – blame
e) are – is
f) of – by
g) for – from
h) a – the


Exercise 5(CBSE paper):

Children love picnics and outings of their parents    a)……………
though they are equally happier doing things with    b)……………
them around the house. A parent may make    c)………………
his child feels special by following some simple    d)………………
rituals. Bedtime stories, the game of cards or    e)
simply talking and laugh together before going to    f)………………
bed - some give children a wonderful sense   
of well-being. they hardly ever forgot these moments    g)…………
and cherish them throughout these lives.    h)……………

Answers:
a)  of - with
b) happier - happy
c) around - in
d) feels - feel
e) the - a
f) laugh - laughing
g) forgot - forget
h) these - their


Exercise 6(CBSE 2007):

Time is very precious than money.    a)……………
Money once lose can be regained,    b)……………

but time once lost was lost forever.    c)………………
Time and tide waits for no one. A    d)………………
Lost opportunities may spoil one’s life.    e)
Those who doesn’t act in time    f)………………
has to repent afterwards. An intelligent    g).........
student prepares his lessons on advance.          h)…………
Hence proper  using of time is essential in life.      i)……………

Answers:
a) Very – more
b) Lose-lost
c) Was-is
d) Waits-wait
e) Opportunities-opportunity
f) Doesn’t-don’t
g) Has-have
h) On-in
i) Using-use


CBSE - Class 9/10 - Editing Exercise - 2
Editing Exercise


(See Answers below)
Q1(SQP 2011): The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction. Remember to underline the word you have supplied.

Often these days we hear and speak of the conquered    (a) _____ ______
in nature, ‘the taming of a river’, ‘the war against insects’    (b) _____ ______
and so on. Often these phrases being used without consciously    (c) _____ ______
attaching any value to them, but those have an    (d) _____ ______
underlying attitude of hostile towards Nature and Nature’s    (e) _____ ______
creatures, a viewpoint which seeming to assume    (f) _____ ______
Nature as an enemy that needs to being vanquished.    (g) _____ ______
Alternatively, Nature is seen merely as the ‘resource’ to be ‘exploited’              (h) _____ ______



Q2(SQP 2011): The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. Remember to underline the word you have supplied.



When I return home from school, I found that    (a) _return_ _returned_
my mother were in kitchen and my younger    (b) _____ ______
sister is playing with her friends in the verandah.    (c) _____ ______
In my room, all the books was lying scattered    (d) _____ ______
on the floor. I am definitely very annoyed.    (e) _____ ______
I asked my sister, “Ritu, did you entered this room in my absence?”    (f) _____ ______
“I was looking for some colourful pictures for my scrap file. I search      (g) _____ ______
through your books and they fall down one              (h) _____ ______
by one”, she answered sheepishly.   


Q3: 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 one has been done for you as an example.

Thanks to the current interest for fitness                                                  (a) _for_ _in_
and health that peoples are taking    (b) _____ ______
in each locality we find this days    (c) _____ ______
some centres and clubs is springing    (d) _____ ______
up and they are do well in their    (e) _____ ______
new venture. But fortunately they    (f) _____ ______
are not within easy reach for all.      (g) _____ ______
They charges are too high.              (h) _____ ______
Beside, they are located in cities only.   




Answer 1:
(a) conquered - conquest
(b) in              - of
(c) being        - are
(d) those        - they
(e) hostile      - hostility
(f) seeming    - seems
(g) being        - be
(h) the            - a

Answer 2:
(a) return    - returned
(b) were      - was
(c) is          - was
(d) was      - were
(e) am        - was
(f) entered  - enter
(g) search  - serached
(h) fall      - fell

Answer 3:
(a) for        - in
(b) peoples - people
(c) this        - these
(d) is          - are
(e) do        - doing
(f) fortunately - unfortunately
(g) for        - to
(h) They    - Their
(i) Beside  - Besides
.