Error Correction Exercises:
Exercise No. 1.
Correct the following sentences :
1. Whenever it rains my husband uses his car to go to his office but my children stayed at home.
2. During the festival season, a vast majority of people gathers here to celebrate the occasion with a great pomp and show.
4. One of the purpose for which I visited his place was to consult him for formulating policy for the new project.
5. The doctor prescribed medicine after conducting carefully examination of the patient.
6. The leader is so popular among people of this area that whenever he visits here to meet his followers in this hall, it is packed fully to its capacity.
7. The company has decided to organise a training programme for their employees so that they may know about its new marketing policy.
8. The farmer spotted a herd of stray animals in his field which were destroying the crop.
9. During this period of natural calamity, the worst hit are industrial and agricultre labourers.
10. The minister urged the people of the country to make generously donations for the country's relief fund to help the sufferers.
SOLUTION
1. In this sentence the clause 'whenever it rains' has a correct subject and verb combination Subject and verb both are singular. The clause 'my husband uses his car' has 'my husband' subject singular 'uses' is singular verb and 'his car' is object. This combination is also correct. 'to go to his office' is also correct. The other clause 'My children stayed at home' has 'my children' is Subject 'stayed at' is verb. These two clauses are joined by the conjunction 'but'. A conjunction joins two things (i.e. clauses in this case) of the same level. But here the first one is in present tense and the latter in past tense. This sentence shows action of continuous nature i.e. the action was in past as well as is in present time. It will be in future also. So it should be in present indefinite tense. Instead of 'stayed' it should be 'stay'.
2. Subject 'a vast majority of people' always has a plural verb . It should be 'gather' instead of 'gathers'.
3.'Such' has with it both 'as' and 'that'. 'As' describes a comparison and 'that' is a 'result'. Here it should be 'that' instead of 'as'.
4. This sentence describes 'one' out of 'many' so instead of 'purpose' it should be 'purposes'.
5. The clause 'the doctor prescribed medicine' has a correct subject and Verb combination.'Examination' is a noun and 'carefully' describes the noun 'examination' but it is an adverb. To describe a noun an adjective is required. Instead of 'carefully' it should be 'careful examination'.
6. In this sentence 'packed' is a verb and adverb 'fully' describes it. 'to its capacity' also describes it. Both have the same meaning. Here 'fully' is redundant. It should be 'packed to its capacity' meaning 'packed fully'.
7. The clause 'the company ......training programme' is in Present Perfect Tense. It has a correct Subject Verb and Object combination.In 'for their employees', 'employees' is s noun and 'their' is adjective. It describes 'the company' and not 'employees'.It should be in singular form 'its' instead of 'their'.
8. 'A herd of animals' acts as a singular noun and with it the verb 'were destroying' should be in singular 'was destroying'.
9. In this sentence 'labourers' is a noun and 'industrial and agriculture' describe it . The conjunction and joins the two. Both should be in the form of adjectives i.e. 'Industrial and agricultural'.
10. In this sentence 'donations' is a noun and 'generously' describes it but it is an adverb. Here it should be adjective instead of adverb i.e.'generous donations'.
Exercise No. 2.
Correct the following sentences :
1. Though he undoubtedly is a very honest and sincere person yet nobody but his friends believe upon him.
2. With a view to provide such facility to its employees, the company is planning to build schools and parks in the colony.
3. From the response of the people of this vicinity,it appears that they are not interested in purchasing these things no more.
4. It is noticed that during the last week procurement of wheat and pulses crops in various markets have picked up considerably.
5. The local authorities warned the traders of the city that if they resort to hoarding of essential goods, a strict action would be taken against them.
6. The climatic changes during the last decade or so has an adverse effect on the pattern of seasons of the subcontinent.
7. It is worth appreciating that the residents of the city are behaving proper like law abiding citizens.
8. One of the evident reason that he does not visit you is that he attends his office till late hours these days.
9. Promptly actions taken by the authorities have saved the situation from worsening further.
10. Between the period April to June farmers are busy in harvesting of wheat crop.
SOLUTION
1. In this sentence first part '... he undoubtedly is a very honest ......' in present tense is correct. The second part is also in present tense. These two are connected by yet. Nobody (not his friends)is subject, a Pronoun in singular and it should have singular verb i.e. believes and believe. Nobody, everybody or anybody take singular verb with them.
2. 'Such' is a word that takes singular as well as plural noun with it. For singular it should be 'such a facility' and for plural it should be such facilities. The hinder part of the sentence tells about more than one facilities. So it will be such facilities.
3. In this sentence there are two negatives which is incorrect. It should be either 'are not interested any more' or 'are interested no more'.
4. In this sentence 'procurement' (and not crops of wheat and pulses) is the subject in singular and with it verb should be in singular 'has picked up' instead of 'have picked up'.
5. Try to understand this sentence in the way of narration. He said to them,"if you refuse a strict action will be taken against you." Its indirect form is He warned them that if they 'refused' a strict action would be taken against them. Similarly it should be 'resorted' instead of 'resort'.
in other words the first clause in the sentence 'the local authorities......the city' is in past tense. It is joined with the other clause 'if they ..... goods' by conjunction 'that'. This clause also should be in past tense. So it should be 'resorted' instead of 'resort'.
6. The climatic changes is Subject in plural and with it the verb is 'has' whereas it should be in plural 'have'.
7.' ........ residents ........ are behaving' Residents is subject in plural. Verb is behaving and to describe it the word is 'proper' which is a noun. To describe a verb, an adverb is required. It should be 'properly'.
8.In 'one of the evident reason' it should be 'one of the evident reasons'.
9.This sentence is in passive voice. 'Action' is object placed in the beginning of the sentence and subject 'the authorities' is in the last of the sentence. 'Promptly' describes the noun 'action'. But is an adverb. Instead of an adverb an adjective 'prompt' is required.
10. Between is used about any time from a particular time to another time. Here instead 'During' is required.
Exercise No. 3.
Correct the following sentences :
1. "This sort of customers are in the habit of making unusual demands and they are never satisfied." said the shopkeeper.
2. The boy carrying his luggage on his shoulder walks a little distance on foot before he boarded a bus to reach his house in the city.
3. It is hard deny that the chairman is adept in taking good decision and implement them without any hindrance.
4. The boy imitated his father and he sang like his father did.
5. He made his preference clearly when he declared that he will accept the deal only if the total amount is paid in advance.
6. He is the person who I think they selected as their captain.
Exercise No. 29
Which of the options given below be written in place of the underlined portion in the sentence so as to give its correct form.
Now our company has been venturing with the fields of production which it never tried earlier.
(correction tip- The word 'agree' is followed by prepositions- agree with a person, to a proposal, on a point )
Qcs32, It should be 2nd option?
ReplyDeleteCs33 .. No error?