Thursday, June 14, 2012

Error identification


The following passage contains 10 mistakes, such as grammatical errors, wrong prepositions and conjunctions. Correct the mistakes and rewrite the correct version of this passage. 


The world has made tremendous progress in (1) eradicate polio. Globally, the incidence of polio cases (2) have declined by 90 percent. However, certain parts of South Asia and Africa are still (3) threaten by this disease. The health authorities have still (4) get plenty to do towards (5) wipe out polio. Polio is a (6) high (7)infect disease. Thus, when there is a threat of epidemic many social activities are(8) call off. Schools are also (9) close. People are (10) scarced and they avoid contact with those infected with the disease.


Answers
1. eradicating    2. has    3. threatened    4. got    5. wiping    6. highly    7. infectious    8. called    9. closed    10. scared

The world has made tremendous progress in eradicating polio. Globally, the incidence of polio cases has declined by 90 percent. However, certain parts of South Asia and Africa are still threatened by this disease. The health authorities have still got plenty to do towards wiping out polio. Polio is a highly infectiousdisease. Thus, when there is a threat of epidemic many social activities are calledoff. Schools are also closed. People are scared and they avoid contact with those infected with the disease. 

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