Brave Bird English · Class 10

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6 th Unit: C-Reading: A Tale of Three Villages - Para No: 35 from the List

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Even when the dust began to fall, they still played outside. (22) They picked up handfuls of it and throw it at each other, laughing. It was Wednesday before the loudspeaker van came to the village, telling us to keep our children indoors and not to touch the radioactive dust. (23) They also told us to wash up our houses and roads with water. (24) A week later the children beginning to vomit. (25) Their hair fell in. They couldn't eat. (26) They grew so thin, and sores appeared all against their little bodies.

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Write the corrected word or phrase for each numbered error (22–26). Submit your answers to receive marks, then review the explanations.

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Correct (22): … picked up handfuls of it and threw it…
Explanation: After “picked up,” the next action must also be in past tense.
• throw ❌ (present tense)
• threw ✔ (past tense)

Correct (23): … wash down our houses and roads…
Explanation: We use “wash down” when we clean something by pouring or spraying water over it.
• wash up ❌ (means washing dishes or washing oneself)
• wash down ✔ (correct meaning for cleaning surfaces)

Correct (24): A week later the children began to vomit.
Explanation: The sentence is in past tense, so the verb must also be in past form.
• beginning ❌ (present continuous)
• began ✔ (simple past)

Correct (25): Their hair fell out.
Explanation: We use “fall out” to talk about hair becoming loose and dropping from the body.
• fell in ❌ (incorrect meaning)
• fell out ✔ (correct phrasal verb for losing hair)

Correct (26): … sores appeared all over their little bodies.
Explanation: We say “all over” when something is spread across the entire body.
• against ❌ (wrong preposition)
• all over ✔ (correct meaning)