Sunday 10 February 2013

CBSE - Class 9/10 - Editing Exercise - 2

 Editing Exercise

(See Answers below)
Q1(SQP 2011): The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction. Remember to underline the word you have supplied. 

Often these days we hear and speak of the conquered(a) _____ ______
in nature, ‘the taming of a river’, ‘the war against insects’(b) _____ ______
and so on. Often these phrases being used without consciously(c) _____ ______
attaching any value to them, but those have an(d) _____ ______
underlying attitude of hostile towards Nature and Nature’s(e) _____ ______
creatures, a viewpoint which seeming to assume(f) _____ ______
Nature as an enemy that needs to being vanquished.(g) _____ ______
Alternatively, Nature is seen merely as the ‘resource’ to be ‘exploited’           (h) _____ ______



Q2(SQP 2011): The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. Remember to underline the word you have supplied.




When I return home from school, I found that(a) _return_ _returned_
my mother were in kitchen and my younger(b) _____ ______
sister is playing with her friends in the verandah.(c) _____ ______
In my room, all the books was lying scattered(d) _____ ______
on the floor. I am definitely very annoyed.(e) _____ ______
I asked my sister, “Ritu, did you entered this room in my absence?”(f) _____ ______
“I was looking for some colourful pictures for my scrap file. I search   (g) _____ ______
through your books and they fall down one           (h) _____ ______
by one”, she answered sheepishly.


Q3: The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided. The first one has been done for you as an example.

Thanks to the current interest for fitness                                                (a) _for_ _in_
and health that peoples are taking(b) _____ ______
in each locality we find this days(c) _____ ______
some centres and clubs is springing(d) _____ ______
up and they are do well in their(e) _____ ______
new venture. But fortunately they(f) _____ ______
are not within easy reach for all.   (g) _____ ______
They charges are too high.           (h) _____ ______
Beside, they are located in cities only.




Answer 1:
(a) conquered - conquest
(b) in              - of
(c) being         - are
(d) those         - they
(e) hostile       - hostility
(f) seeming     - seems
(g) being         - be
(h) the             - a

Answer 2:
(a) return    - returned
(b) were      - was
(c) is           - was
(d) was       - were
(e) am         - was
(f) entered   - enter
(g) search   - serached
(h) fall       - fell

Answer 3:
(a) for         - in
(b) peoples - people
(c) this        - these
(d) is           - are
(e) do         - doing
(f) fortunately - unfortunately
(g) for         - to
(h) They     - Their
(i) Beside   - Besides
.

☛ See also
Editing Exercise-1
Editing Exercise-2
Editing Exercise - 3
Editing Exercise - 4
Editing Exercise - 5
Cloze Test and Error Correction

113 comments:

  1. class 9/10..
    it was supposed to be 7th standard.
    but anyway good

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    1. If you do not like this exercise then surf on other sites but don't give irritating and criticising comments to the efforts made for this exercise.👿👿👿😡

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    2. chill! what so ever be the reason at least the person didnt actallu gave criticising cooments... it was just said as a genuine comment ( i guess) ... n if ever annoyed then plz ignore... :)

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    3. and also later the person said " anyways good" what the hell do u want more from the person... hence , apriciated

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    4. chill! what so ever be the reason at least the person didnt actallu gave criticising cooments... it was just said as a genuine comment ( i guess) ... n if ever annoyed then plz ignore... :)

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    5. Pretty helpful!!! THUMBS UP!!

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    7. Thank u ..it was helpful

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    9. Ya Annesha dutta naman is right it's so easy

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    10. shivi soni stop arguing
      it is only for views
      whether good or bad
      none of yur bussiness

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    12. hi what up kids... first of all i would like to thank CBSE webiste for very nice exercises... and u all dumb
      personalties shiv,soni whatever please settle all your
      disputes at home not socially.. it will show YOUR own class or family u belong to.

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    14. Yes it really helped me to practise my exercises in a proper way🙏🙏

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    15. i wanted it like to answer online not just questions it was boring but.

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  2. thanks
    it helped me for my exam

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  3. thnx helped me a lot for my sa 2

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  5. nice 1 helped me for my examination

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  6. ya it was truly the good one...it helped me for my unit test

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  7. It's proved to be very helpful for me and my brother.......!!!

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  8. it helps in exams and little tough but ok

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  9. I like it but some were given by my teacher.

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  10. nice. and i like it. hoping it will help in my sa2

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  11. nice. and i like it. hoping it will help in my sa2

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  12. Gr8 exercises....took me out of confusions....👍

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  13. Are these exercises suppose to be so darn easy???

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  14. I wish they were more tougher

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  15. exercises were actually of the school level......this is the level i was searching for...but the level can be a little bettter ...but the first one was very god. PERFECT

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  16. nice i liked it. helped me a lot.awesomee

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  17. Easy but good efforts made
    Actualy helped

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  18. Wonderful and helpful for my SA 2 exams

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  20. Nice exercise hope it will help me

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  21. easy but helpful good job guys

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  22. after this can any one show me wht i focus to find out this type of mistake in every sentence <thing see if tht sentance is correct or not

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  23. Thanks good exercise for even a 11th student me!

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  24. if anyone had done the exercise pls tell me that the answer key given is right? as teacher from sherwood hall. chennai is chellanging.

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  25. if anyone had done the exercise pls tell me that the answer key given is right? as teacher from sherwood hall. chennai is chellanging.

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  26. is anyone had done nd check the answer key as teacher from sherwood hall chennai is chellanging the answer key

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  27. Can someone answer this..
    'Trees also help conserve/conserving soil.'

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  28. thanks
    it helped me for my exam and thanks tharani sathya.....luv u

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  29. any th 9 base and th 8 in coc so pls join my clan ASSASSIN'S 2 CLAN LVL 7 SO PLS JOIN MY CLAN

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  30. It has very simple level sentences, from which mistakes can be easily found. I need some more tough sentences in order to get practice for exams.

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  31. It has very simple level sentences, from which mistakes can be easily found. I need some more tough sentences in order to get practice for exams.

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  32. Pls provide more exercises for practice

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  33. This excerise was so very easy
    I need some more critical and tough excerise

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  34. This excerise was so very easy
    I need some more critical and tough excerise

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  35. Aawwssome
    Easy!!
    But helped a lot
    Thank u sooo much!!!!

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  36. Helpful but please give some more

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  37. Tmrw is my exam and this was really helpful!! Thanks

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  38. NO DOUBT THE EXERCISES ARE EXCELLENT. BUT ONE REQUEST IS THAT CAN U PLZ MAKE THIS SUCH A SITE WHEREIN EXERCISES CAN BE COPIED.

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    1. We've started our efforts in providing printable and downloadable documents. Time to time check at Eduvictors.com->Downloads

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    2. It was helpful but some of them has been done by me earlier.

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  39. Nice ...helped me a lot in my holiday homework ....really very nice.....Thanks a lot

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  40. Very tough and waste of doing

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  41. Nice exercises but level is not for class 9and 10 but Good
    Thanks

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  42. Too gud.........plz upload more

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  43. nice but it's very lengthy compared to 10

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  44. IT WAS HELPFUL.
    MM..BUT IT SEEMS PRETTY EASY.

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  45. Thanks and very helpful.
    Could have increased the level of standard as it will not help in complete fulfillment of mastering edit

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  48. Thanks a lot. It really helped me understand my mistakes.

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  49. This didn't help , bahut zyada bakwaas

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  50. very helpfull
    thanks
    helpful

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  51. Good tha yaar Jo iss exercise ko banaya tha aur yah Kai sir hoge to ggod luck sir...
    Kartikay..

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  52. It's very easy... Increase the standard please..

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  53. Soo Easy ...plz incresin the difficulty level ...

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  54. Very nice thnxx for this help ..... 😊☺☺😊

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  55. thanku its really mast hai

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