The following passage has not been edited. Find the error in each line and write the corrections against each line.
a) The road to success is no a bed of roses.
b) Only those who wade on hazards and hurdles
c) can achieve successful. Set yourself clear goals
d) and decide precisely what you want to do.
e) Goals provide direction for your behaviour
f) and guide your actions or thoughts. Specific goals
g) are better than general ones. Let every parts
h) of your body is full of that idea. Winners do not
i) do different things, they does things differently.
Passage Editing | Error Correction | English Grammar | Class 10 | CBSE
Answers
wade wades
successful success
no error
for to
or and
parts part
is be
does do
Answer :
Cambridge English Dictionary defines "edit" as "to make changes to a text, film, etc., correcting mistakes or removing some parts, especially in order to prepare it for being printed or shown."
The purpose of editing exercises is to make students proficient in proof reading by helping them to identify and correct errors in a text.
The errors in the given passage along with their corrections are as follows :
Incorrect Correct
a) no not
b) on through
c) successful success
d) decide define
e) for to
f) or and
g) parts part
h) is be
i) does do