Editing Exercise 1 for Class 10
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In this post, I am sharing Editing Exercise 1 for Class 10 with Answer. These types of questions will be asked in CBSE Class 10th Board Exams 2023-24. Solving this exercise is essential to achieve a good score in the board exams. It helps improve language skills and boosts confidence for the upcoming exams Board exams.
Editing Exercise for Class 10
The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which a blank is given.
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1. Although their is no direct evidence that (a) ……… …………
salt is a cause with high blood pressure (b) ………… …………
yet there are studies who indicate that (c) ………… …………
reducing the salt intake lower blood pressure. (d) ………… …………
Incorrect Correct
2. Sachin Tendulkar is not have thought (a) ………… …………
much about the Ministry in Sports. (b) ………… …………
M.C.A. has plans for rope them in (c) ………… …………
as a member of his governing council. (d) ………… …………
Incorrect Correct
3. A debate is a contest between two
people to show skill but ability in (a) ………… …………
arguing. For participate in a (b) ………… …………
debate we must prepare for it. (c) ………… …………
One must prepare a outline of (d) ………… …………
the main points in the order in which one is going to argue.
Incorrect Correct
4. Smoking is a bad habit. It spoils not only the
lungs but also the liver of the smokers. In a (a) ……… ………
beginning it is just a casual try and by and by (b) ……… ………
one get gripped in it and it becomes a (c) ……… ………
compulsive habits, which a person is not able to get (d) ……… ………
free from.
Incorrect Correct
5. According to Britain’s ‘Sunday Times’
medical error are the third (a) ……….. ………..
more frequent cause of death in (b) ……….. ………..
the world after cancer of heart disease. (c) ……….. ………..
The number of death in hospitals (d) ……….. ………..
is due to medical negligence.
Incorrect Correct
Vikrant always feed the birds e.g. feed feeds
feed feeds which came to his garden. (a) …………. ………….
They were quite wild but they are (b) …………. ………….
also hungry. At first, they had (c) …………. ………….
afraid of him. He use to put (d) …………. ………….
some food for them. They wait (e) …………. ………….
until he went back into his house.
And then they flying down to eat (f) …………. ………….
the food. After some months, they come (g) …………. ………….
nearer and nearer to his hand, because
there is food in his hand. (h) …………. ………….
Incorrect Correct
7. About 150 years ago, twelve years old
boy in France inventing a writing system inventing invented
for the blind. His name is Louis Braille (a) ………… …………
and after him the alphabet is call the (b) ………… …………
‘Braille’ alphabet. It is a system of
dots. The dots are arrange in a special (c) ………… …………
way. The blind people reads with their (d) ………… …………
fingers. Today, thousands of blind people
have became able to read these special (e) ………… …………
books for them. These students can
achieved in their studies now . (f) ………… …………
Incorrect Correct
8. Helen Keller is aged two when e.g. is was
an illness take away her sight and (a) ………… …………
hearing. She also lose the ability (b) ………… …………
to spoke, because all of us (c) ………… …………
learns to speak by imitating what (d) ………… …………
we hears. So, as a child (e) ………… …………
she live in a (lark and silent (f) ………… …………
world. At first, it seem impossible (g) ………… …………
that she would even understood others. (h) ………… …………
Incorrect Correct
9. Rama was a naughty boy that lived e.g. that who
in the village of Tenali. Her mother (a) ………… …………
did not know what to do at him (b) ………… …………
since he refused to study or did any (c) ………… …………
work. One day she take him to see (d) ………… …………
a guru. She told an holy man (e) ………… …………
that she were washing her hands (f) ………… …………
off her son since he should (g) ………… …………
Incorrect Correct
10. Rama lived in a village of Tenali. He loved
the to play pranks and was always jokes. He (a) ………….. …………..
refused to study but take anything seriously. (b) ………….. …………..
His mother didn’t not know what to do (c) ………….. …………..
with him. She feel he never would be (d) ………….. …………..
enable to make something of himself. (e) ………….. …………..
One day she take him to see a guru. She (f) ………….. …………..
told the guru that he had had enough (g) ………….. …………..
Answers & Explanation
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(b) with of
(c) who which
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(a) is may
(b) in of
(c) them him
(d) his their
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(a) but and
(b) For To
(c) we they
(d) a an
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(a) a the
(b) and but
(c) get gets
(d) habits habit
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(a) are is
(b) more most
(c) of and
(d) death deaths
- Incorrect Correct
(a) came come
(b) were are
(c) had were
(d) use used
(e) wait waited
(f) flying flew
(g) come came
(h) is was
- Incorrect Correct
(a) is was
(b) call called
(c) arrange arranged
(d) reads read
(e) became become
(f) achieved achieve
- Incorrect Correct
(a) take took
(b) lose lost
(c) spoke speak
(d) learns learn
(e) hears hear
(f) live lived
(g) seem seemed
(h) understood understand
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(a) her his
(b) at with
(c) did do
(d) take took
(e) an the
(f) were was
(g) since and
(h) about of
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(a) jokes joking
(b) but or
(c) didn’t did
(d) feel felt
(e) enable able
(f) take took
(g) he she
(h) the some
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