CBSE Class 8 English Errors and omissions Assignment

In the following passages one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined as shown in example:

1. In the bejewelled beauty of Lakshadweep, the most     e.g. beauty of Lakshdeep
glittering is Minicoy, southernmost island of the                 (a) ..............................
archipelago. You can tell the difference even you              (b) ..............................
land at the jetty. Dressed jeans and T-shirts, the wiry,        (c) ..............................
muscular young man truly children of the sea.                   (d) ..............................
Pulling the ropes, steering or piloting, there no                  (e) ..............................
doubt were born on the sea and are meant for                  (f) ..............................
the sea. Half of the male population are sailors.
Fishing is the main occupation well as the                         (g) ..............................
main source livelihood for the people of the island.           (h) ..............................
Answer. (a) Minicoy, the southern most (b) even as you
(c) Dressed in jeans (d) men are truly
(e) there is no (f ) doubt they were
(g) occupation as well (h) source of livelihood

2. In process of pasteurisation, milk, wine,                    e.g. In the process
butter, etc. are heated up a certain                                (a) ..............................
temperature then quickly chilled. This                           (b) ..............................
kills the bacteria them. If milk is                                     (c) ..............................
heated upto 63° 30 minutes in between                        (d) ..............................
72°–85° for 16 seconds and then chilled to 10° less,     (e) ..............................
the bacteria present in it destroyed.                               (f) ..............................
Pasteurisation protects the milk from being spoiled.
Most of the milk plants using this technique                 (g) ..............................
to make the milk free bacterial decay.                          (h) ..............................
Answer. (a) up to a (b) temperature and then
(c) bacteria in them (d) 63° for 30 minutes
(e) 10° or less (f ) it are destroyed
(g) plants are using (h) free from bacterial

3. Throughout the greater part Bertrand Russell’s    e.g. part of Bestrand
childhood, most important hours of his days               (a) ..............................
were those he spent alone in the garden.                   (b) ..............................
He knew corner of the garden, and knew                   (c) ..............................
in part of the garden primroses and bluebells             (d) ..............................
bloomed. He was very fond watching the                   (e) ..............................
sunrise bright April days and he would sometimes     (f) ..............................
slip out of the house for a long walk before breakfast.
He spent a lot of time not only reflecting deeply on the
human race also on reflecting the ways                      (g) ..............................
and means solving those formidable issues.               (h) ..............................
Answer. (a) childhood the most (b) those that he
(c) knew each corner (d) in which part
(e) fond of watching (f ) sunrise on bright
(g) race but also (g) means for solving

4. From very early times, India had been famous              e.g. Famous for spices
spices, textiles, jewellery pearls. The Arabs were                (a) ..............................
among the first to come India for trade. Later, the                (b) ..............................
Portuguese, the Dutch, French and the English                   (c) ..............................
followed. They fought themselves to control trade.              (d) ..............................
The English the most powerful. They treaded through         (e) ..............................
the English East India Company. The company bought
goods from India cheap rates and sold them abroad at       (f) ..............................
high prices. These European traders indulged many           (g) ..............................
illegal activities like the opium trade. Earning
money was only consideraton and they had little                 (h) ..............................
consideration for human values and freedom.
Answer. (a) jewellery and pearls (b) come to India
(c) Dutch the French (d) fought among themselves
(e) English were the (f ) India at cheap
(g) indulged in many (h) was the only

5. Plants derive their food both the earth                     e.g. both from the
and the air. If you minutely look their                          (a) ..............................
roots, you find that the ends of their                           (b) ..............................
roots like fine fibres. We call them root-hairs.             (c) ..............................
They absorb water minerals and                                 (d) ..............................
transport upwards to the leaves through the               (e) ..............................
trunk and the branches. It is the leaves prepare          (f) ..............................
the food. The leaves have pores which are filled air.   (g) ..............................
The leaves absorb oxygen the air through                   (h) ..............................
a process called photosynthesis.
Answer. (a) look at their (b) you will find
(c) roots are like (d) water and minerals
(e) transport them upwards (f ) leaves which prepare
(g) filled with air (g) oxygen from the

Errors and omissions

Question : In the following passage has not been edited. There I a mistake in each line. Write the incorrect word as well as the correction.

Once the stranger had an attack of influenza. _________ ________
During his illness he has nothing to do. So he ________ _________
Kept look at the face of some real ________ _________
Man and the man must be living somewhere. ________ _________
He decided that he will try to find _________ _________
This man out. He did not knew why he _________ _________
Want to meet him. But he felt that the _________ _________
Man and he was in some way linked by fate. _________ _________

Question : In the following passage, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and after it.

Last Sunday there was colourful ______ _______
Programme debates, group songs, ______ _______
Folk dance drama. Different teams ______ _______
Vied one another and _______ _______
Put up a fine show. The items _______ _______
Which presented were well prepared ________ _______
The presence the girl – students in the ________ _______
Fashionable and tight – fitting dresses lent ________ _______
charm it.