Common errors in English grammar for competitive exams. Common mistakes in English writing. Paragraph editing for CET exams.
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common mistakes in English:
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1. The Earth is one of the eight planet that go around the Sun. In ancient times, the people who study the stars noticed that while certain heaven bodies seemed fixed in a sky, others seemed to move around.
Answer:
1. planet – planets
2. study – studied
3. heaven – heavenly
4. a – the
2. In British days, India was knowing like a country of Maharajas, snake charmers and beggars while a first two species is almost extinct, are surviving perhaps on adopting Darwin’s theory of survival.
Answer:
1. knowing – known
2. like – as
3. a – the
4. is – are
5. on – by
3. Marie Curie make history in when she became a first woman on receive the Nobel Prize in Physics. She won that prestigious honour alongside his and Henri Becquerel for their work on radio activity.
Answer:
1. make – made
2. a – the
3. on – to
4. that – the
5. his – her
4. Music can takes us to ecstatic heights. Put your heart and soul in it and it fills your up with real happiness. All kind of music is divine. Any kind of music have the ability to uplift your mood and the power to recondition your mind.
Answer:
1. takes – take
2. in – into
3. your – you
4. kind – kinds
5. have – has
5. Global warming increase the of rise on sea levels and have led to a dramatic increase is coastal flooding risks. Much small islands like Maldives face the risk to getting submerged in the near future.
Answer:
1. increase – increases
2. on – in
3. have – has
4. much – many
5. to – of
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