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(b) (i) let your behaviour drive (ii) let your behaviour be driven

(iii) let your behaviour drives (iv) let yours behaviour drive
(c) (i) You could have used bold (ii) You might also use

(iii) You may have used bold (iv) You can use bold

Editing (Error Correction)
Editing (Error Correction)
• In this type of exercise, the students are required to identify errors in the text, make
corrections, and write them in the blanks provided.
• The text needs to be read carefully to identify the tense used.

• Look for grammatical errors.

Solved Examples

I. The following passages have not been edited. There is an error in each of the lines
against which blanks are given. Write the incorrect word and the corrected word in the
given blanks. Underline the corrected word that has been supplied.

(1)
Incorrect Correct

Natural asphalt lakes are found in many parts (a) a the
of the world. One of a largest sites
is on the island of Trinidad which more (b) which where
than 10 million tonnes have been mining. (c) mining mined
Asphalt starts out deepest in the ground (d) deepest deep

by crude oil. Heat, pressure, and oxygen (e) by as
drives by the volatile constituents of the (f) drives driven

oil transform it into asphalt. Then, if (g) transform transforms
fissures existed in overlying rock, the asphalt (h) existed exist
escapes to the surface.

(2)

Incorrect Correct
Tourism is one in the biggest (a) in of
businesses in the world, generated (b) generated generating

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