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Practice Questions

I. In the following passages, there is an error in each of the lines against which blanks
have been given. Write the incorrect word and the corrected word in the given blanks.
Underline the corrected word that has been supplied.

(1)

Incorrect Correct

One cold morning as I was walking in (a) ___________ ___________
the woods, I hear the sound of the flapping (b) ___________ ___________
of wings. On approaching it, I find a (c) ___________ ___________

beautiful swan lying helpless with blood (d) ___________ ___________
oozing out from one of it’s wings. It looked (e) ___________ ___________
at me from a mute appeal in its eyes. I (f) ___________ ___________

carried it for my house and nursed its wound. (g) ___________ ___________
In a few days’ time, it can fly and I set it free. (h) ___________ ___________

(2)

Incorrect Correct
Mary Kom is a Indian boxer who is a five-time World (a) ___________ ___________

Amateur Boxing champion. She is the only women (b) ___________ ___________
boxer to had won a medal in each one of the six (c) ___________ ___________

world championships. She was the first Indian woman (d) ___________ ___________
boxers to get a gold medal at the Asian Games for the (e) ___________ ___________
2014 Asian Games held in South Korea. She also win (f) ___________ ___________
the bronze medal at the Women’s Flyweight Boxing (g) ___________ ___________

Event in the 2012 London Olympics. (h) ___________ ___________

(3)

Incorrect Correct
It were my third year at boarding school and I was sitting (a) ___________ ___________
on platform no. 7 at the New Delhi railway station waited (b) ___________ ___________

for my train bound for Nainital. I thought I was about (c) ___________ ___________

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