Monday 15 April 2024

Editing Errors-Error Detection

 

Passages for Editing

Direction: The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction against the correct blank number.

Try Answering by editing the following passage. 

 

 

Passage in lines

Wrong word

Replaced with the correct one

1.It's a scientifically prove system

2. that describe some unexpected

3.benefits of cycling. In an recent study

4.in the Journal of clinically and Diagnostic Research',

5. scientists find that people scored higher on

6.test of memory, reasoning and planning

7.after 30 minutes of spinning on a stationery

8.bike than they did before they

ride the bike.

9.They also complete

the tests faster after pedaling.

 

 

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Answers: 1. Prove-proven; 2. describe-describes 3. am-a 4. clinically-clinical 5. scored-score 6. test-tests 7 stationer-stationary 8. ride-rode 9. complete-completed