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.
Editing Exercises for Class 9 CBSE With Answers PDF
Basic English Grammar rules can be tricky. In this article, we’ll get you started with the basics of sentence structure, punctuation, parts of speech, and more.
We also providing Extra Questions for Class 9 English Chapter wise.
Editing Solved Exercise With Answers for Class 9 CBSE
1.
| Error | Correction | ||
| In the evening, as I am | e.g | am | was |
| returning by the office, I | (a) | _________________ | _________________ |
| saw a disorderly rows to | (b) | _________________ | _________________ |
| vehicles. An accident had took | (c) | _________________ | _________________ |
| place killing two boys and injure | (d) | _________________ | _________________ |
| other three. The boys are | (e) | _________________ | _________________ |
| driving in high speed. | (f) | _________________ | _________________ |
Answer:
(a) by – from
(b) to – of
(c) took – taken
(d) injure – injuring
(e) are – were
(f) in – at
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 notebooks as given below against the correct blank numbers. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| For most than four exhausting years, the Polish-bom | most | more |
| Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre, work in a | ……… | ……… |
| large dilapidated wood shed near their Paris | ……… | ……… |
| lodgings. It was here – on the September night | ……… | ……… |
| in 1902 which they finally discovered the radioactive | ……… | ……… |
| element that they named ‘radium’ for the Latin | ……… | ……… |
| word radius, meaning a ‘ray’. Radium providing the first effective treatment for some types of cancer | ……… | ……… |
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 notebooks as given below against the correct blank numbers. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| A group of people which sincerely love their country | which | who |
| and are anxious for its prosperity may revolt against | ……… | ……… |
| the government, because they believe the government | ……… | ……… |
| is bad for the country. They would immediately be called | ……… | ……… |
| rebels and traitors. Call them rebels may be correct, | ……… | ……… |
| the but not traitors for they may be truly most loyal to | ……… | ……… |
| interests of their fellow countrymen than a government. | ……… | ……… |
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 notebooks as given below against the correct blank numbers. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| The history of medicine include the pre-scientific | include | includes |
| stage, before it is a science, and the time | ……… | ……… |
| where it became a science. The medicine of | ……… | ……… |
| primitive people had few kinds of strange explanations | ……… | ……… |
| of diseases. The medicine men, who main function | ……… | ……… |
| was to curing diseases, based their healing methods | ……… | ……… |
| on the assumption that most, if not all, illness were caused by supernatural powers. | ……… | ……… |
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 notebooks as given below against the correct blank numbers. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| With at least a month and a half break on the | on | in |
| school schedule for the summer, entertain children | ……… | ……… |
| can be a tough challenge. While students looking forward | ……… | ……… |
| to vacation to let off steam, looking after them or | ……… | ……… |
| taking them on a holiday was a tough task. With the | ……… | ……… |
| changing scenario on the home front, as most and | ……… | ……… |
| more couples are taking to work seriously and opt out of the joint family fold, children’s recreation options during vacations are limited | ……… | ……… |
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 notebooks as given below against the correct blank numbers. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| A newborn baby is snatched from her hospital | is | was |
| cot last night. The day-old girl vanishing from a | ……… | ……… |
| side ward after her 23-year-old mother leave her | ……… | ……… |
| alone for 20 minute. The distraught mother | ……… | ……… |
| go home with her husband to wait and hope | ……… | ……… |
| witnesses when a big police search is on. Eye | ……… | ……… |
| have been quoted as said that they had seen a woman loitering around the hospitalward in suspicious circumstances | ……… | ……… |
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 notebooks as given below against the correct blank numbers. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| Father’s Day celebrations was held | was | is |
| Through out a world. But sadly enough, | ……… | ……… |
| the day have been commercialized and | ……… | ……… |
| children celebrates the day by sending | ……… | ……… |
| cards to there father rather than by | ……… | ……… |
| honouring him and cherishing the bond | ……… | ……… |
| we share by him. | ……… | ……… |
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 notebooks as given below against the correct blank numbers. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| Unfortunately, the practice of dowry abuses | abuses | abuse |
| is rising in India. The more severe form of | ……… | ……… |
| abuse is ‘bride burning’, the burning of woman | ……… | ……… |
| whose dowries was not considered sufficient by | ……… | ……… |
| their husbands or in-laws. Most of this incidents | ……… | ……… |
| are reported as accident bums in the | ……… | ……… |
| kitchen or is disguised as suicide | ……… | ……… |
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 notebooks as given below against the correct blank numbers. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| The major problem is this the planet | this | that |
| appears to being warming up. According to | ……… | ……… |
| some experts, that warming process, known | ……… | ……… |
| as global warming, was occurring at a rate | ……… | ……… |
| unprecedented in the last 10,000 year. The | ……… | ……… |
| implications for the planet is very serious. | ……… | ……… |
| Rising global temperatures can give rise to terrible ecological disasters. | ……… | ……… |
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 notebooks as given below against the correct blank numbers. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied. (1/2 x 6 = 3 marks)
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| People in most countries has become | has | have |
| aware of the damage who modem living | ……… | ……… |
| is doing to an environment, and many of | ……… | ……… |
| them is concerning themselves with the | ……… | ……… |
| conservation of the environment of future | ……… | ……… |
| generation. Thus, both politicians and scientists | ……… | ……… |
| are now look at the issues of energy-saving and waste disposal. | ……… | ……… |