Error Paragraphs/Editing Section
8 th Unit: C-Reading: What is My Name - Para No: 48 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): You came first at the music competition conducted by the college.
Explanation: The definite article the is required before college because it refers to a specific college already known from the context.
• conducted by college ❌
• conducted by the college ✔️
Correct (23): You used to paint good pictures too. We were ten friends altogether — I meet all of them some time or other.
Explanation: The adverb too means “also” and is correct here.
• paint good pictures to ❌
• paint good pictures too ✔️
Correct (24): We wrote letters to each other.
Explanation: We use to after write letters when referring to the recipient.
• wrote letters for each other ❌
• wrote letters to each other ✔️
Correct (25): Only you have gone out of our reach!
Explanation: After have, the past participle gone must be used.
• have went ❌
• have gone ✔️
Correct (26): Tell me why you are living incognito?" my friend confronted her.
Explanation: In indirect questions beginning with why, the verb does not invert.
• why are you living ❌
• why you are living ✔️