Editing Exercise

Editing 

 Editing Exercises for Practise.

Select the word which should be edited from the following sentences to make them grammatically correct.

1. I have been living in Ireland there for two years.

A) Have been

B) Living

C) There

D) For

2. She did not want to do work today.

A) Did not

B) Want

C) Do

D) Today

3. Bharath lent his book to me on yesterday.

A) Lent

B) On

C) To

D) Yesterday

4. Sarvani is my friend whom is a writer.

A) My

B) Whom

C) Is

D) A

5. I wanted to stay out away of this.

A) Away

B) To

C) Of

D) Out

6. I have wrote this song yesterday.

A) This

B) Have

C) Yesterday

D) None of the above

7. Would like that you deliver this letter for me.

A) That

B) This

C) For

D) Me

8. The office where I work at is very small.

A) The

B) Where

C) At

D) Very

9. She wrote to me this letter.

A) To

B) Me

C) This

D) None of the Above

10. I asked to him if he wants to go out.

A) To

B) If

C) Out

D) None of the Above

Answers

The grammatically incorrect words from each sentence that should be edited are as follows.

1. C) There

Correct sentence: I have been living in Ireland for two years.

2. C) Do

Correct sentence: She did not want to work today.

3. B) On

Correct sentence: Bharath lent his book to me yesterday.

4. B) Whom

Correct sentence: Sarvani is my friend who is a writer.

5. C) Of

Correct sentence: I wanted to stay out of this.

6. B) Have

Correct sentence: I wrote this song yesterday. ("Have written" is also possible, but with "yesterday," simple past is better.)

7. A) That

Correct sentence: Would you like to deliver this letter for me?

Or: I would like you to deliver this letter for me.

8. C) At

Correct sentence: The office where I work is very small.

9. A) To

Correct sentence: She wrote me this letter.

("To me" is grammatically okay, but in this structure it's unnecessary.)

10. A) To

Correct sentence: I asked him if he wants to go out.

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