ERROR FINDING
EXERCISE 5
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 | |
| The experts admitted that lack in air spray facilities | in | of | |
| allowed locusts to spreading to a wider area. | (a) | ||
| Highlighting the importance in the aerial spray | (b) | ||
| mechanism of the pesticides, the team underlines | (c) | ||
| the importance from advanced drone technology. | (d) | ||
| Experts said that based by the recommendations of | (e) | ||
| the team, government can consider employ | (f) | ||
| helicopters and drone technology |
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 | |
| To attract domestic or foreign tourists to | or | and | |
| Jaisalmer after summers, the district | (a) | ||
| administration is planned a scheme. The aim | (b) | ||
| of the scheme is to promoting night tourism from | (c) | ||
| March 20 to June 30 when summers are for | (d) | ||
| its peak in the region. The tourist session in | (e) | ||
| Jaisalmer is from August and March when | (f) | ||
| around 10 lakh tourists visits the district, while | (g) | ||
| in summer there is total silence. |
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 | |
| The more you know most you realise the | most | more | |
| magnitude of what you did not know. Our | (a) | ||
| biodiversity is a unique treasure upon the entire | (b) | ||
| human kind. We have to preserve it or explore | (c) | ||
| it further. It is a method of joy that India, and | (d) | ||
| especially Meghalaya, was home to a rare | (e) | ||
| species. It lends a new facet in India’s biodiversity. | (f) | ||
| We are surrounded out many such mysteries, | (g) | ||
| which are still undiscovered. |
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