The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line against which a blank is given. Write the incorrect word 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.
Error Correction
The passenger were waiting at the e.g. passenger passengers
bus stop when four police officials rushing (a)
into difference buses. (b)
After sometimes one of them (c)
comes out with two young ladies (d)
and soon the other policeman joined her. (e)
The man which had been arrested (f)
was been caught for a theft. (g)
They had stealed two cars and a motorcycle. (h)
Answers
(a) rushing rushed
(b) difference different
(c) sometimes sometime
(d) comes came
(e) her him
(f) which who
(g) was had
(h) stealed stolen
Answer:
Error-free sentence:
(a) The passenger were waiting at the e.g. passenger passengers bus stop when four police officials rushed.
(b) Into different buses.
(c) After sometime one of them.
(d) Came out with two young ladies.
(e) And soon the other policeman joined him.
(f) The man who had been arrested.
(g) Had been caught for a theft.
(h) They had stolen two cars and a motorcycle.
Additional information:
✭ Before correcting the error statement/question - check the grammatical mistakes in the error sentences.
✭ Check that the sentence is meaningful.
✭ Read the jumbled sentences and create a meaningful sentences.
✭ Add capital letter, full stop, question mark, exclamatory marks according to the type of sentences.
✭ Check the tenses in the sentence, add the suitable words for the sentence which suits the correct tense.
Examples:
✭ Didn't go he to school yesterday?
Answer:
✭ Didn't he go to the school yesterday?
Explanation:
✭ The above example shows that the tense is shown what yesterday. Yesterday this work describes and makes the sentence past tenses.
✭ While converting the sentence we must be careful about the tense, the questions may be in past tenses or present tense or future tense.
Past tenses:
✭ There are few words which makes the sentence past tenses, such as before, had done, have eaten, yesterday, already.
Present tenses:
✭ The words which defines about the things which is done now and there are many other sub-tenses, such as playing, eating, talking, typing.
Future tenses:
✭ There are few words which describes about the future and also the examples are will, maybe, will be/maybe, Maybe I go to picnic next week, I will be learning at 12th next year.
✭ There are many other things which helps to learn correct the error sentences and also making the grammatical and tense mistakes correct. ✭