Question

1. Edit the following passage: 4 Marks

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 !"​

Answer 1

Answer:

           Incorrect                                   Correct

a) have                                         had  

b) leave                                          left  

c) can                                                  could  

d) start                                                 started

e) is                                                       was                                                                                                                    

f) puts                                            put  

g) contains                                       contained  

h) say                                                    said  

Explanation:

PPACTS RULE – error/omission would be any of the following:

• P – Preposition

• P – Pronoun

• A – Article/determiner

• C – Conjunction

• T – Tense/Verb Forms (singular/plural)

• S – Spelling