Question

16. Edit the following passage correcting the underlined parts.
4 x /2 = 2 M
Ramesh was fourteen years old. He leaved (a) his widowed mother and
three younger sisters back in Hyderabad. He took up a long travel of hun-
dreds of miles to found (b)a new future. He reached Kolkata, one of the
oldest city(c) in India. On reaching the city, he found that the streets were
very narrow. Finding a job was not an easy task. Cursed by hungry (d) he
joined a group of rag pickers.​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) left

b) find

c) cities

d) hunger

Explanation:

Ramesh was fourteen years old. He left his widowed mother and

three younger sisters back in Hyderabad. He took up a long travel of hundreds of miles to find a new future. He reached Kolkata, one of the

oldest cities  in India. On reaching the city, he found that the streets were

very narrow. Finding a job was not an easy task. Cursed by hunger,  he

joined a group of rag pickers.​