Question

1.The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which a number is given. Write the incorrect word and supply a correct word in place of that. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied.


Incorrect  Correct

Word   Word

Legend tells us that for about three thousand   eg.  For   in

1. years B.C. a Chinese Empress, while taking his  (a) .........   .........

2. tea, out of curious, dipped the cocoon   (b) .........   .........

3. of silkworm into it and learn to unwind the  (c) .........   .........

Fine thread of silk. It was nearly five thousand years

4. later that the Frenchman,     (d) .........   .........

experimenting with

the crushed leaves of the mulberry trees,

5. in which the silkworm feeds,    (e) .........   .........

6. find out how to produce     (f) .........   ........

7. a fine silk like filament which we now

calls artificial silk.      (g) .........   .........

8. It is only in the last twenty-five years that me​

Answer 1

Answer:

1 ans is has .

2 ans is is.

3 ans is the .

4 ans is after.

5 ans is of .

6 ans is a

7 ans is a new that .

8 ans is that.

this is answere.

Answer 2

Incorrect word correct word

a) his her

b) curious curiosity

c) learn learned

d) the a

e) in on

f) find found

g) calls call

h) me we