Editing and Omission Exercises Following are the exercises for editing class 9 and 10 English. If you want to become a professional grammar editor, just practice the. Editing & omission grammar 1. A VERY HEARTY GOOD MORNING TO ALL 2. (a)Time is very precious than money. (b)Money once lose can be regained.

(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.

Lpr Utility Download. 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.