(ii) The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in the space provided against the correct blank number:
| Error | Correction | ||
| Overeating is one of the more wonderful | e.g. | more | most |
| practices among those which think that they | (a) | ||
| can afford it. In fact, that is said that | (b) | ||
| near all those who can get as much | (c) | ||
| as he desire, overeat to their disadvantage. | (d) |
(iii) Do as directed.
i. Rearrange the following jumbled words/phrases in the given dialogue to create a meaningful sentence.
They still had all their classroom in bright condition. They have gone to see a match. The sick and the suffering found the love and affection of a real mother in Mother Teresa.
that it/its knowledge/of our civilisation/does not know/with/the great defect/is/what to do
ii. Read the conversation given below. Based on your reading, fill in the blanks appropriately.
Harshit: How long have you been living in Delhi?
Vipin: I have been living here for the last three years. My parents and I shall be leaving for Mumbai soon as my father is posted there.
Harshit: When will you all be leaving?
Vipin: We will be leaving by the first week of next month.
Harshit asked Vipin how long he had been living in Delhi. Vipin replied
(a) __________ He further added that his parents and he would be leaving for Mumbai soon as his father was posted there. Harshit asked him (b) __________ Vipin replied that they would be leaving by the first week of the following month.
(ii)
| Error | Correction | |
| (a) | which | who |
| (b) | that | it |
| (c) | near | nearly |
| (d) | he | they |
(iii) Do as directed.
i. The great defect of our civilisation is that it does not know what to do with its knowledge.
ii. (a) that he had been living there for the last three years, (b) when they all would be leaving