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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
Guava, which is believed to a native of (a) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––
Peru in South America also called “Peru” (b) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––

in Mumbai, may be because it came India (c) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––

from there. Guava brought into India (d) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––
only the 16 century. It grew well here (e) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––
th
and became so popular today (f) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––

guava is fifth most widely (g) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––
grown fruit crop India. (h) –––––––– –––––––– ––––––––

Answers

Before Missing word After

(a) to be a

(b) America is also Integrated Grammar
(c) came to India

(d) Guava was brought

(e) only during the

(f) popular that today

(g) is the fifth
(h) crop of India

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