Editing Exercises For Class 9 CBSE With Answers
The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Identify the error, correct it and write the error and the correction in the space provided. The first one has been done for you.
| Error | Correction | |
| Renowned archeologist Denis Price, who shoots to fame last year (a) | shoots | shot |
| with his amazing discovery of Stonehenge’s lost altar stone is (b) | ||
| now claimed to having found the famed ‘Lost city of Apollo’ around (c) | ||
| the Neolithic structure. Much experts believe the lost city is a (d) | ||
| myth, but Price is convinced that the city exists and that it is situating (e) | ||
| right on the outskirts of Salisbury were the Stonehenge is situated. (f) |
Answers
a) Error – shoots / correction – shot
b) Error – is / correction – has
c) Error – having / correction – have
d) Error – much / correction – many
e) Error – situating / correction – situated
f) Error – were / correction – where
Class 9 Editing Exercise 2
The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Identify the error, correct it and write the error and the correction in the space provided
| Error | Correction | |
| Every years, major storms cause major problems around the (a) | ||
| world. There’s nothing people may do to stop the powerful forces (b) | ||
| of nature. But new techniques were helping scientists to predict (c) | ||
| how, when, and where the big ones would occur. (d) |
Answers
a) Error – years / correction – year
b) Error – may / correction – can
c) Error – were / correction – are
d) Error – would / correction – will
