ERROR FINDING
EXERCISE 2
Q 1. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the error and its correction in the space provided.
| Passage | Error | Correction | |
| It began to rain heavy when we came | heavy | heavily | |
| out. As we have umbrellas we thought | (a) | ||
| we had nothing to worried, but soon | (b) | ||
| the strong winds shook us off our | (c) | ||
| feet. We were drench and our umbrellas | (d) | ||
| simply flew away. We took shelter in a | (e) | ||
| tree and waited for the rain to slack or stopped | (f) |
Q 2. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the error and its correction in the space provided.
| Passage | Error | Correction | |
| The poet relates an incident who changed | who | Which | |
| his life. It was the season where the leaves turned | (a) | ||
| yellow. He reached a place when the road forked | (b) | ||
| into two. For he was a single traveller he could not | (c) | ||
| travel on both. His difficulty was whether it was | (d) | ||
| not easy to decide whose road he should take. | (e) | ||
| It was a dilemma and he had to choose one of | (f) | ||
| them when he wanted to have both. Then | (g) | ||
| he took the one who considered better of the two | (h) |
Q 3. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the error and its correction in the space provided.
| Passage | Error | Correction | |
| US President Donald Trumps’s initial visit to India | initial | first | |
| comes at time when the Indo-US relationship have | (a) | ||
| evolve into India’s best strategic partnership. | (b) | ||
| As an official of India said recent, whether in | (c) | ||
| countering terrorism or ensure a peaceful | (d) | ||
| world, India and US has unprecedented | (e) | ||
| common interests.The two countries is having more | (f) | ||
| than 50 mechanisms for exchange of view. | (g) |
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