worksheet1- Editing Exercises

Worksheet 1

                                                        Exercises on Editing
The following passages have not been edited. There is an error in each of the lines against which a blank is given. Write the incorrect word and the correction in the space provided.

1. Owls spends most of their time in the                          a) ___________                  ____________

dark and has an acute sense of                                          b)___________                   ____________

hearing. They can detect there prey just                           c)___________                   ____________

by hear them move in the complete darkness.                  d)___________                   ____________

Owls have two ears, one on neither side                           e)__________                     _____________

of a head. They also have                                                  f)___________                    _____________

a dish like structure at the                                                  g)___________                   ____________

face what is made up of feathers                                        h) ___________                 _____________

2.Mother Teresa comes to Kolkata in 1929                      a) _____________             ___________

Where she was hardly 19 years old. When                       b) _____________ `           _____________

She first arrived in Kolkata, she just has                          c) _____________              _____________

Five rupees on her pocket. The priest                               d) _____________             _____________

Helped it in the new and strange city.                               e) _____________             _____________

She lived in a small room from                                         f) _____________              _____________

Nine years where he nursed                                               g) _____________             _____________

A sick people back to health                                                 h) _____________           ____________

3. often these days we hear and speak of the conquered       a) _____________       _____________

in nature the taming of river and 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) ___________        _____________

creature a viewpoint which seeming to assume                             f) ___________         __________

nature as an enemy that needs to be vanquished.                          g) ___________        _____________

Alternatively, nature is seen merely as the resources to be           h) ___________       _____________ 

exploited.              

4.Thanks to the current interest for health                                   a) __________         ___________

and fitness that peoples are taking                                               b) ___________       _____________

in each locality. We find this days                                                c) ___________       _____________

some centers and clubs is springing                                             d) ___________       _____________

up and they are do well in their                                                     e )___________       _____________

new venture, but fortunately they                                                  f ) ___________       _____________

are not within the easy reach for all.                                             g) ____________       ___________

They charges are too high.                                                             h) ____________      ___________

Besides, they are located at cities only.                                          i) ____________       ___________

5. Read the letter given below. This letter has not been edited after being written. Before it reaches to the concerned person, help to rectify this letter as it contains many errors. Find out the errors and correct them.

298 Pine view Drive

23rd February 2016

Ms. Ashley Libby

Mayer, City Hall

556 Chicago Avenue

Subject: Letter of Complaint

Dear Ms. Libby

I am writeing to you because I can no longer deel with the

potholes on my street. Already I break an axle on my car,

and I had to spend a lot of money to fix it. Is City Hall going

to give me back that money?

Pleese do what the taxpayors pay you to do, which is fix the

roads when they get potholes. I hope to see a rorad cru on

my street soon.

Yours truly,

Donna Giordano