Question

The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the error and its correction as shown in the example. Neil Armstrong was the commander for Apollo 11 E.g. for of He was the first to walk over (a) __ __ the moon. What many people do not knew (b) __ __ is that unlike most of their fellow (c) __ __ astronauts, he was the civilian (d) __ __ and not part of the military.

Answer 1

Error and its correction :

He was the first to walk on the moon. What many people do not  know is that unlike most of his fellow astronauts, he was a civilian and not part of the military.

a) Over, On

b) Knew, Know

c) Their, His

d) The, a

• The error in (a) is 'over', and the correction is 'on'.

• The error in (b) is 'knew', and the correction is 'know', as we are talking in present tense here.

• The error in (c) is 'their', and the correction is 'his', as here we are talking about a single person, Neil Armstrong.

• The error in (d) is 'the', and the correction is 'a', as again here we are talking about a single person, Neil Armstrong.