Question

The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each line against which a blank has been given.
Write the error and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number as given in the example.
Remember to underline the word that you have supplied.

Research is an detailed study of a subject undertaking on a systematic basis in order to increase a stock of knowledge, including knowledge for man, culture and society, that the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications.

Error
e.g. an
(a) _________
(b) _________
(c) _________
(d) _________

Correction
(a) _________
(b) _________
(c) _________
(d) _________

Answer 1

error correction
a)an a
b)undertaking undertaken
c)a the

Answer 2

Error:

(a) __an_______

(b) __undertaking_______

(c) ___a______

(d) __for_______

Correction:

(a) ___the______

 ‘An’ should be replaced with ‘the’ since it is followed subject is study. ‘The’ is the correct article to be used in the blank because it is used with uncountable nouns.

(b) ___undertaken______

Research is the already completed task, hence ‘undertaken’ is used instead of ‘undertaking’.

(c) ___the ______

‘The’ is the correct article to be used instead of ‘a’. ‘The’ is used to denote the particular group .

(d) ___of______

‘Of’ is the preposition is used to relate or connect something.