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8 th Unit: C-Reading: What is My Name - Para No: 47 from the List
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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): Hoping at least she would remember, the housewife asked her, “Look, ammayi, do you know my name?”
Explanation: The auxiliary do is required to form a correct present-tense question.
• does you know ❌
• do you know ✔️
Correct (23): “What do we have to do with names of mistresses?”
Explanation: The infinitive to do must be used after have.
• have do ❌
• have to do ✔️
Correct (24): “You are only a mistress to us — the mistress of such and such a white storeyed house, ground floor means you.”
Explanation: The correct adjective order is white storeyed house, not storeyed white house.
• such and such a storeyed white house ❌
• such and such a white storeyed house ✔️
Correct (25): “Yes, true, of course, how can you know, poor thing?” thought the housewife.
Explanation: The modal verb can is required to form a proper question expressing ability.
• how must you know ❌
• how can you know ✔️
Correct (26): “At least the children might remember my name,” the housewife hoped.
Explanation: After might, the verb must be in its base form.
• might remembered ❌
• might remember ✔️