Editing exercise 1

The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Identify the error and write the incorrect word and the correct word in your answer sheet against the blank space as given in the example. Underline the correct word.

	Error	Correction
After traveling nearly three billions miles, Stardust, a NASA (a)	billions	billion
interplanetary spacecraft, returns to earth on Monday, January 16 (b)
with dust from a comet. Scientists believes that the dust may also (c)
contains the oldest materials in the solar system and it could provide (d)
vital clues to how the solar system was forming. Stardust was (e)
launched in 1999 and it’s primary objective was to investigate (f)
the makeup of the comet Wild 2.

Answers

a) error – billions / correction – billion

b) error – returns / correction – returned

c) error – believes / correction – believe

d) error – contains / correction – contain

e) error – forming / correction – formed

f) error – it’s / correction – its

Exercise 2

	Error	Correction
The people who walked in a muddy lakeshore in southeastern (a)	in	on
Australia surely never suspect that their footprints would stick (b)
around for 20,000 years. Yet, at least 124 of their prints still existed. (c)
A group of Australian scientists recently uncovered this (d)
barefoot impressions. Its the largest collection of Stone Age (e)
footprints ever discovered, and scientists hopes the (f)
impressions will give insight in the lives of the people (g)
who left them behind. The footprints are found in August (h)
2003 during a general survey of the areas archaeology. (i)

Answers

a) error – in / correction – on

b) error – suspect / correction – suspected

c) error – existed / correction – exist

d) error – this / correction – these

e) error – its / correction – it is / it’s

f) error – hopes / correction – hope

g) error – in / correction – into

h) error – are / correction – were

i) error – areas / correction – area’s

Exercise 3

	Error	Correction
The word flag , which is of German origin, signify a piece (a)	signify	signifies
of cloth or a similar materials displaying the insignia of (b)
a community, an armed force, an office or the individual. (c)
In ancient India , flags have great significance right from (d)
the Indus Valley Civilization. The ancient flags are often (e)
triangular and unicolour. They belonged with a king, (f)
his kingdom and his army. At modern times, a national flag (g)
does not belongs to an individual person (h)

Answers

a) error – signify / correction – signifies

b) error – materials / correction – material

c) error – the / correction – an

d) error – have / correction – had

e) error – are / correction – were

f) error – with / correction – to

g) error – at / correction – in

h) error – belongs / correction – belong