The following passage has not been edited. There is an erpr in each line against which a blank is given. Write the incorrect word and the corrected word in your answer sheet against the blank as given in the example. Underline the corrected word that has been supplied.
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Editing Practice Exercise for Class 10 CBSE
1. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Write the error as well as the correction as shown in the example. Do any four. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Error | Correction | ||
| In the prisoner’s room a candle is | e.g. | Is | was |
| was burning dimly. A prisoner himself | (a) | …………………….. | …………………….. |
| sat by the table. Only him back, | (b) | …………………….. | …………………….. |
| the hair by his head, and his | (c) | …………………….. | …………………….. |
| hands are visible from outside | (d) | …………………….. | …………………….. |
| through any window. | (e) | …………………….. | …………………….. |
Answer:
Error – Correction
(a) A – The
(b) him – his
(c) by – on
(d) are – were
(e) any – the
2. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheets. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| The body could be consider a permanent furnace. | (a) | ……………………….. |
| The food we take in is fuel, who the body bums up. | (b) | ……………………….. |
| In these process, about 2,500 calories are used | (c) | ……………………….. |
| every day in the body. This is enough heat to bring 23 litres | (d) | ……………………….. |
| of water to boiling point! Perspiration are one of the | (e) | ……………………….. |
| ways to keep our body‘furnace’ in normal temperature. | (f) | ……………………….. |
3. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheets. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| At Haridwar begin the milking of the Ganges. | (a) | ……………………….. |
| Canals take off in different directions, left just a trickle | (b) | ……………………….. |
| in the main stream. One canal is use to produce electric power, | (c) | ……………………….. |
| another goes to irrigation thirsty flatlands of UP. | (d) | ……………………….. |
| A water of these canals or that running in taps is not | (e) | ……………………….. |
| sacred; those privilege is reserved only for the main river. | (f) | ……………………….. |
4. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheets. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Siegfried was the heroes of several legends of Germany | (a) | ……………………….. |
| and Scandinavia. He is also the main character in Wagners | (b) | ……………………….. |
| opera The Ring of the Nibelung, whom is based on these legends. | (c) | ……………………….. |
| In Wagner’s version, any dwarfs take treasure from the Rhine and | (d) | ……………………….. |
| make it upto a magic ring. Whoever owns that ring controls the | (e) | ……………………….. |
| world, but it is stolen at a dragon. Siegfried defeats the dragon. | (f) | ……………………….. |
5. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheets. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6=3 marks)
| Error | Correction | ||
| Since I has nothing else to do, hence | (a) | …………………….. | …………………….. |
| I am a ragpicker scrounging in | (b) | …………………….. | …………………….. |
| bins and heaps. I know if this is . | (c) | …………………….. | …………………….. |
| the only means for survival for me. I hail | (d) | …………………….. | …………………….. |
| from the streets of Dhaka. We lived under | (e) | …………………….. | …………………….. |
| the leaking roofs. Garbage have different meaning to us, I find sometimes a rupee in it. | (f) | …………………….. | …………………….. |
Answer:
Incorrect – Correct
(a) has – have
(b) in – the
(c) if – that
(d) for – of
(e) lived – live
(f) have – has
6. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheets. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Industrial and urbanisation have resulted in profound | (a) | ……………………….. |
| deteriorating of India’s air quality. Of the 3 million premature | (b) | ……………………….. |
| deaths in the world that occur each year because to outdoor | (c) | ……………………….. |
| and indoor air pollution, the high number have been assessed | (d) | ……………………….. |
| to occur in India. According to a World Health Organisation, | (e) | ……………………….. |
| New Delhi is all of the top ten most polluted cities in the world. | (f) | ……………………….. |
7. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheets. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Crackers show opulence, but resulting in noise or air pollution. | (a) | ……………………….. |
| Commercialization of every festival have taken the attention away | (b) | ……………………….. |
| from what that festivals was actually meant to achieve, and the | (c) | ……………………….. |
| special foods and cultures associated with them. The few people | (d) | ……………………….. |
| realize this, and they are working towards presenting option | (e) | ……………………….. |
| of celebrating at traditional, yet eco-friendly ways. | (I) | ……………………….. |
8. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheets. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| A curious thing about the developed of motion pictures | (a) | ……………………….. |
| is that the first groups of people who made it possible | (b) | ……………………….. |
| were not interested in movies at all! The first invents | (c) | ……………………….. |
| were make by men who wanted to study the movement | (d) | ……………………….. |
| of animals. Even Thomas Edison, which perfected a device | (e) | ……………………….. |
| called kinetoscope in 1893, think of it only as a curiosity. | (f) | ……………………….. |
9. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheets. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| UFOs may be foods for comedians but there was | (a) | ……………………….. |
| no joking while a group of former pilots recounted | (b) | ……………………….. |
| see strange phenomena in the sky and demanded an | (c) | ……………………….. |
| investigation of the phenomenon. Several pilots offer | (d) | ……………………….. |
| dramatic account including the report of a transparent | (e) | ……………………….. |
| flying disc and a mysterious triangular shapes spacecraft. | (f) | ……………………….. |
10. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheets. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| An oil tanker become stuck on a reef in Alaska. The rocks | (a) | ……………………….. |
| in the reef tear a hole in the ship. From the hole, a lot of oil | (b) | ……………………….. |
| spill into the ocean. A person from the oil company said that | (c) | ……………………….. |
| they are trying to cleaning it up as fast as they could. They would | (d) | ……………………….. |
| pay for the entire clean up. A person who lives their said that | (e) | ……………………….. |
| they were told they will never saw this kind of a problem again. | (f) | ……………………….. |