Error Paragraphs/Editing Section
7 th Unit: A-Reading: My Childhood - Para No: 39 from the List
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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.
Correct (22): His wife was horrified at the idea of a Muslim boy invited to dine in her ritually pure kitchen.
Explanation: Being must be followed by a past participle (invited).
• a Muslim boy being invite ❌
• a Muslim boy invited ✔️
Correct (23): She refused to serve me in her kitchen.
Explanation: After “refused to,” the verb must be in its base form.
• refused to serving ❌
• refused to serve ✔️
Correct (24): His wife watched us from behind the kitchen door.
Explanation: The definite article the is needed because it refers to a specific door.
• behind a kitchen door ❌
• behind the kitchen door ✔️
Correct (25): I wondered if she had observed any difference in the way I ate rice, drank water or cleaned the floor after the meal.
Explanation: In a list of actions, or is the correct conjunction in this context.
• drank water but cleaned ❌
• drank water or cleaned ✔️
Correct (26): When I was leaving his house, Sivasubramania Iyer invited me to join him for dinner again the next weekend.
Explanation: The correct order is “join him,” not “him join.”
• invited me to him join ❌
• invited me to join him ✔️