ERROR FINDING
EXERCISE 8
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 | |
| Former Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi have | have | has | |
| credited the success for Indian cricket to the IPL, | (a) | ||
| saying it has helping the country’s budding | (b) | ||
| cricketers to cope better for the pressures of | (c) | ||
| international cricket. I think the IPL is turned | (d) | ||
| around Indian cricket. Their new player, after | (e) | ||
| having played in IPL besides top foreign players | (f) | ||
| and having share dressing room with them are | (g) | ||
| ready when they come by international cricket. | (h) |
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 | |
| It turned around to be a super Saturday for India as | around | out | |
| Chennai’s M Hansini begged a bronze medal in the | (a) | ||
| mini-cadet girls’ singles category on a Swedish | (b) | ||
| Open in Orebro, Sweden. The 10 years old class 5 | (c) | ||
| student starts her main draw challenge after a | (d) | ||
| couple of wins in the group stages before went | (e) | ||
| down by Russia’s Pugovkina in a grueling | (f) | ||
| semifinal match. |
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 | |
| Antibiotics have been a cornerstone in modern | in | of | |
| medicine for the discovery of penicillin, | (a) | ||
| but their effectiveness have seriously diminished | (b) | ||
| in recent years as overuse has led ahead bacteria | (c) | ||
| becoming resistant. The scientists for MIT and | (d) | ||
| Harvard training a machine learning algorithm | (e) | ||
| to analyse chemical compounds capable at | (f) | ||
| fight infections using different mechanisms | (g) | ||
| than those of existing drugs. |
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