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Integrated Grammar
Integrated Grammar

Omission

Omission is an exercise in which learners have to find from where a word has been omitted and
provide the missing word. This exercise contains a short passage in which a word is omitted
in each numbered line.

In the following passage, one word has been omitted in each numbered line. Write the missing

word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after the missing word.
Underline the missing words.

Before Missing After
word

He took me his room and told me I (a) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––

could sleep the verandah. But I was (b) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––

nearly back on the street night. (c) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––

The meal I cooked must been pretty (d) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––

awful, because Arun gave it the neighbour’s cat. (e) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––

Answers

Before Missing word After

(a) me to his Integrated Grammar

(b) sleep in the

(c) street that night

(d) must have been

(e) it to the

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