1.Edit the passage underlining the mistake present in every line by writing the correct word in the blank space.My day begins on five O'clock in the morning a) _____

It has been so since the last forty years b) ______

except for the two years of which I was c) _______

very ill. I wake up at the sound of an d) ______

alarm clock bought at 1952. e) _______

From then until today, it has never f) _______

let me down. My routine, however turns topsy-turvy

in holidays when I cannot sleep for ten O'clock. I have g) ______ maintained a fairly regular routine over my working years. h) _______

When I retire on two years' time, I hope I will be i) _______

able to continue this practice.


2.The following passage is incomplete. One word has been omitted in every line against which there is a blank. Indicate the place where the word has to be inserted with a / and write the word in the space provided.

Parmesh and his friends planning a trip a) _____

during the summer vacations. While all of them b) _____

keen to get away from the heat, none them were able to suggest which place to visit. c) _____

It only draw of lots which could finally decide the matter. d) _____

They decided on Ooty as it neither too far away nor too crowded.

e) _____

The date of departure and the duration of their stay still to be decided. f) _____

The announcement of their final exam date sheet still two weeks away. g) _____

Until then, each of them resolved h) _____

collect information about hill station. i) _____

3.Underline each error and write the correction in the space provided.

One morning, the Nawab call a) _________

his minister and said him b) _________

that I wanted the length and c) _________

breadth from the earth d) _________

measured. He also feel the e) _________

need to have the stars on the f) _________

sky counted. The minister says g) _________

that the task he have been h) _________

set being impossible. i) _________

4.The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which there is a blank. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided.

I entered the manager's office and sat down.

I have just lost five hundred rupees and I felt very upset. a) ______

"I leave the money in my desk," I said, b) ______

"and it is not there now". The manager was very sympathetic

but he can do nothing. "Everyone loses money these days", c) ______

he said, He start to complain about this wicked world, d) ______

but is interrupted by a knock at the door. e) ______

A girl came in and puts an envelope on his desk. f) ______

It contains five hundred rupees. "I found this g) ______

outside this gentleman's room," she said.

"Well! I say to the manager, "there is still some h) ______

honesty in this world !"