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Error Correction

Error correction is a practice exercise in which learners have to identify and correct
specific types of errors. This exercise contains short texts with an error in each line. The
learners are required to identify and correct these errors.

The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each numbered line.
Write the incorrect and correct words in the given space.
Incorrect Correct

The student life in the most important period (a) –––––––––– ––––––––––

of our life. Our future hopes depend upon them. (b) –––––––––– ––––––––––

At this time our mind are like clay. (c) –––––––––– ––––––––––
Clay is a very softer thing. The potter (d) –––––––––– ––––––––––

makes various things with that clay. (e) –––––––––– ––––––––––

Like clay, our mind can also was shaped (f) –––––––––– ––––––––––

in different ways. If the pots are once make (g) –––––––––– ––––––––––
by the potter, their shapes could not be changed. (h) –––––––––– ––––––––––

Answers

Incorrect Correct
(a) in is
(b) them it
(c) are is

(d) softer soft
(e) that the
(f) was be
(g) make made

(h) could can

Practice Questions

The following passages have not been edited. There is an error in each numbered line. Integrated Grammar
Write the incorrect and correct words in the given space.
Incorrect Correct
1. Mrs Woolly and his daughter lived (a) –––––––––– ––––––––––

at a town where it was always sunny. (b) –––––––––– ––––––––––
She earns money by knitting sweaters. (c) –––––––––– ––––––––––

The sweaters she make were very beautiful (d) –––––––––– ––––––––––

and since no one in their town ever wore (e) –––––––––– ––––––––––
sweaters, she couldn’t earn some money. (f) –––––––––– ––––––––––
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