Omission | English Grammar Class 8 PDF Download

Q.1. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet as given below against the correct blank number:

Time is very precious than money. (i) _____  _____
Money once lose can be regained (ii) _____  _____
but time once lost was lost forever. (iii) _____  _____
Time and tide waits for no one. A (iv) _____  _____
Lost opportunities may spoil one’s life. (v) _____  _____
Those who doesn’t act in time (vi) _____  _____
has to repent afterwards. An intelligent (vii) _____  _____
student prepares his lessons on advance. (viii) _____  _____
Hence proper using of time is essential in life. (ix) _____  _____

(i) Very – more
(ii) Lose – lost
(iii) Was – is
(iv) Waits – wait
(v) Opportunities – opportunity
(vi) Doesn’t – don’t
(vii) Has – have
(viii) On – in
(ix) Using – use

Q.2. Edit the following passage by replacing the incorrect word with the correct one:

Children love picnics and outings of their parents (i) _____  _____
though they are equally happier doing things with (ii) _____  _____
them around the house. A parent may make (iii) _____  _____
his child feels special by following some simple (iv) _____  _____
rituals. Bedtime stories, the game of cards or (v) _____  _____
simply talking and laugh together before going to bed some give children a wonderful
sense (vi) _____  _____
of well-being. They hardly ever forgot these moments (vii) _____  _____
and cherish them throughout these lives. (viii) _____  _____

(i) of – with
(ii) happier – happy
(iii) around – in
(iv) feels – feel
(v) the – a
(vi) laugh – laughing
(vii) forgot – forget
(viii) these – their