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(5)

Incorrect Correct
In the past few decades, there has be a significant (a) be been

rise in the number of lower middle but middle-class (b) but and
women seeking employment for supplement their (c) for to

household income. While their is little doubt that (d) their there
women from the lower class of society has always (e) has have
been work in the fields or in petty jobs to sustain (f) work working

themselves and their families, there is strong (g) is are
objections and a marked reluctance on the middle (h) on within
classes to allow women to step out of the house to
earn a living.

(6)

Incorrect Correct
The industrial revolution marked the begin (a) begin beginning

for industrialisation in Great Britain. There were (b) for of
technological developments while this age, such (c) while during

like the invention of steam engine, railway, telegraph, (d) like as
radio, automobile, etc. All this technological (e) this these
inventions made possible the increase use of (f) increase increased

natural resources along for the mass production of (g) for with
manufactured goods. As the result, the standards of (h) the a

living improved, food became cheaper, and it also
helped to control famines.

II. The following passages contain some errors which have been underlined. Edit them by
choosing the correct options that follow.

1. The ideal detection dog is extremely energetic with (a) a excessive play drive. These dogs
will happily work all day (b) longs, motivated by the expectation (c) as a ball game as a
(d) rewarding for sample detection. The obsessive, high energy personalities of detection
dogs also (e) made them difficult to maintain as pets. As a result, they (f) frequented find
themselves abandoned to animal shelters, (g) face euthanasia. The programme rescues
these dogs and offers them a (h) satisfaction career in conservation research.

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