INTEGRATED GRAMMAR: EXERCISES

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Yesterday we had done integrated grammar exercises based on reported speech, gap filling and tenses etc.

Today we shall be doing some grammar exercises based on editing. 

At the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• understand the method of editing a passage
• apply the techniques to passages to be edited

Passage Editing is of two types

• Error type in this you are required to identify one error in each marked line and make a correction.
• Omission type in this you are required to identify which word is missing in each marked line and write it. 

Let us begin with a few tips on how to handle passages for editing:

1. Read the complete passage from beginning to end at least twice

2. Try to understand what the passage is about.

3.Try to identify which tense has been/ should be used.

4. See whether the passage is in active or passive voice.

5.If the passage is about some natural phenomena,scientific or geographical fact or even some universal facts,the present tense should be used, preferably  the Simple Present tense or Present Indefinite tense will be used.

6. If the passage narrates some event, incident or an experience that took place in the past, the Past tense should be used, preferably the Past Indefinite tense.

7.There will be a passage in the questions with lines numbered a, b, c, d and so on.

8.There will be only one error in each line that is marked with a,b, c and so on

9. In case a line is not marked with a, b, c, d and so on, there is no error in that line.

10.The errors will be based on grammatical concepts such as articles, determiners, tenses, subject verb agreement, connectors,non-finites , prepositions and so on.

11.You are required to identify and write down the incorrect word as well as the correct word that should have been used in its place.

12. The passage may also have one word missing in each marked line. You must find the missing word which may be an article, verb,preposition , conjunction or so on.



Let us try a few exercises now:



ERROR TYPE:

There is one error in each line marked [a] to[i.].Find the error and write the incoorect and correct word with its correct numbering.



    Editing Exercise 1 

a)   More and more people in the country are looked

b)   at the sun for cleaner energy options and right so

c)    India receives a huge amounts of sunlight every

d)   year. If harnessed at cost effective methods

e)   this sunlight could be used to producing a whooping

f)     600 giga watts of electricity. This is more than 5 time

g)   the annual power consumption of India what

h)   is only 120 giga watts. But on spite of the fact that the

i)      potential is huge, what India currently derive is

j       only 10-15 mega watts annually.

     Editing exercise 2

a)   The most common utilization for solar energy

b)   is been with solar photovoltaic (PV) cells. Here

c)    the sun’s light is converting by the PV cells into

d)   Direct Current (DC).These electricity can then be

e)   used to running almost all gadgets in your home.

f)     Another method involve the use of sun’s heat

g)   instead of light. Energy producing from the sun’s

h)   heat is called thermal solar energy. Producing

i)      of thermal solar energy has more cost effective

j)      then the photovoltaic cells method mainly because

k)    here you can converts up to 50-80% of the sun’s

l] energy as opposed with PV which converts only 15%.


OMISSION TYPE:

The following passage has not been edited.there is one word missing in each line.Find the missing word and write it in between the word before and after it.Look at the example given below in the very first line.

Answers

Error / Correction

Editing exercise 1

a] Looked / looking

b] Right / rightly

c] Amounts / amount

d] at / through

e] Producing / produce

f] Time / times

g] Which / what

h] on spite / in spite 

i] Derive / derives

Solution

Error / correction

Editing exercise 2

a] For / of

b] Is / has

c] Converting / converted

d] These / this

e] Running / run

f] Involve / involves

g] Producing / produced

h] Producing / Production

i] Has / is

j] Then / than

k] Converts / convert

l] With / to

Solution:

Omission exercise:
[The missing word has been underlined in each case:

a]  style     was    rather
b] influenced  by  Dickens
c] in    his  own
d] as  a   novelist
e] to   be  set
f] countryside   and   its
g] Many   of   his
h] region  which  harked.



Hope you could do these easily!

A REMINDER:

READING WILL ALWAYS HELP YOU STAND A BETTER CHANCE AT EDITING PASSAGES.MISSING WORDS ANS ERRORS WILL POP OUT FROM THE PAGE WITHOUT MUCH EFFORT.DO READ AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AND AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN !

That is all for today 

See you soon.