Question

Spot the grammatical and punctuation errors in the following passage and rewrite it correctly.



[Note – The errors are numbjered.]

Tourism is one of the largest business (1) in the world, generated (2) at least 200 million jobs. So, what is the tourism industry? First, it is important to define what is meant by the ‘tourism industry’. Essentially, it refers to all activity related to the short-term movement of people to locations away from where they usually reside. It is one of the world’s largest industries and the economies of many nations are driven, to a large extent, by their tourist trade. It's (3) vital for the economics(4) of much (5) countries. It is also a wide-ranging industry, which includes the hotel industry, the transport industry and a number of additional industries or sectors. It is vital to understand that the tourist industry is linked to movement to different locations, based not only on leisure, but also business and some additional travel motivators. The downside is this (6) tourism is an(7) major contributor on (8) climate change due for (9) carbon emissions it create (10). With that being said, according to the most common definitions, the tourism industry does not cover activities related to travel where the person intends to stay in their destination for longer than one year. As an example, this means that expatriates and long-term international students are not technically classed as tourists.​

Answer 1

Rewriting the passage after rectifying the errors as follows:-

Tourism is one of the largest businesses in the world, generates at least 200 million jobs. So, what is the tourism industry? First, it is important to define what is meant by the ‘tourism industry’. Essentially, it refers to all activity related to the short-term movement of people to locations away from where they usually reside. It is one of the world’s largest industries and the economies of many nations are driven, to a large extent, by their tourist trade. It is vital for the economy of many countries. It is also a wide-ranging industry, which includes the hotel industry, the transport industry and a number of additional industries or sectors. It is vital to understand that the tourist industry is linked to movement to different locations, based not only on leisure, but also business and some additional travel motivators. The downside is that tourism is a major contributor to climate change due to the carbon emissions it creates. With that being said, according to the most common definitions, the tourism industry does not cover activities related to travel where the person intends to stay in their destination for longer than one year. As an example, this means that expatriates and long-term international students are not technically classed as tourists.​

• 1- one of the largest businesses, 'business' will be plural here.
• 2 - tourism is singular so 'generates' is the plural verb which should follow it.
• 3- It is vital, contraction is not necessary here.
• 4 - economics is a subject, economy is the financial condition of a country.
• 5 - 'countries' is a definite noun, so many should be used.
• 6- that is the connector which should be used for the clause in the sntence
• 7 - major begins with a consonant, so 'a' should be used.
• 8- contributor 'to' climate change, this is the correct preposition since indicates the direction of the action.
• 9- due is followed with 'to' and 'the' is used to indicate the carbon emissions.
• 10 - 'it' is singular so it should be followed by plural verb, çreates'.

Answer 2

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