The following passage has not been edited. One word is missing from each line. Identify the missing word and write it in your answer sheet. Remember to underline the missing word. The first one has been done as an example for you.
Before Omitted After
Two hundred seamstresses employed
to make my shirts. They e.g., seamstresses were employed
took measurement as (a)
lay on the ground. (b)
Then measured my right thumb (c)
desired no more. (d)
Answers
Before Missing After
(a) took my measurement
(b) I lay
(c) Then they measured
(d) and desired
The passage has been edited and rewritten as follows:
Two hundred seamstresses were employed to make my shirts. They took my measurement as I lay on the ground.
Then they measured my right thumb and
desired no more.
(a) Addition of a pronoun which is used as a possessive adjective in this case- 'my measurement'.
(b) The subject is missing which needs to be placed - 'I'.
(c) The subject- 'they' is required to complete the sentence.
(d) The sentence is incomplete without conjunction( and) which joins both the independent clauses.