Error Paragraphs/Editing Section
8 th Unit: A-Reading: Jamaican Fragment - Para No: 43 from the List
Practice page · 20.43 43th_Er_Pr
Write Your Answers
Write the corrected word or phrase for each numbered error (22–26). Submit your answers to receive marks, then review the explanations.
Correct (22): I looked at the man standing by the gate.
Explanation: We use look at when we direct our eyes toward someone or something.
• looked through ❌
• looked at ✔️
Correct (23): He was a white man.
Explanation: The subject he needs the singular verb was in the past tense.
• He were ❌
• He was ✔️
Correct (24): I remembered what I had thought yesterday.
Explanation: Tomorrow refers to the future, but the memory is about the past, so yesterday is correct.
• thought tomorrow ❌
• thought yesterday ✔️
Correct (25): He, no doubt, I thought to myself, was wondering if the black race is superior to the white.
Explanation:
• The verb must be in the past tense (was wondering) because the narration is past.
• So, is wondering ❌
• was wondering ✔️
Correct (26): I laughed gently to myself.
Explanation: Gently is the correct adverb form; feebly suggests weakness, not soft laughter.
• feebly ❌ (wrong meaning here)
• gently ✔️