INDIAN SCHOOL MUSCAT MIDDLE SECTION DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ENRICHMENT WORKSHEET Class VIII ____Name:_________________________________ Roll No: ___ Date: __________ WKSHT 9 I. The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which there is a blank. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided. I entered the manager's office and sat down. I have just lost five hundred rupees and I felt very upset.
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"I leave the money in my desk," I said,
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but he can do nothing. "Everyone loses money these days",
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he said, He start to complain about this wicked world,
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but is interrupted by a knock at the door.
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A girl came in and puts an envelope on his desk.
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It contains five hundred rupees. "I found this
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"and it is not there now". The manager was very sympathetic
outside this gentleman's room," she said. "Well! I say to the manager, "there is still some honesty in this world !" II. Underline each error and write the correction in the space provided. One morning, the Nawab call
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his minister and said him
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that I wanted the length and
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breadth from the earth
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measured. He also feel the
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need to have the stars on the
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sky counted. The minister says
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that the task he have been
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set being impossible.
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III. The following passage is incomplete. One word has been omitted in every line. Write the missing word along with the words before and after it. Underline the word you provide in the blanks given. Parmesh and his friends planning a trip
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during the summer vacations. While all them
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were keen to get away the heat, none of them were
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able to suggest place to visit. It was only draw of
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lots which could finally decide the matter. They decided on Ooty as it was neither too far away too crowded. The
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date of departure and the duration of their stay still
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to be decided. The announcement of their final exam date sheet still two weeks away.
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Until then, each of them resolved collect
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information the hill station.
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IV. The
following passage is incomplete. One word has been omitted in every line. Write the missing word along with the words before and after it. Underline the word you provide in the blanks given After the holy man had spoken Rama,
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he told Rama's mother that should
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be sent to pray the Kali Temple at the
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village. He promised good lady that if
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this was done, Kali, the goddess appear,
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take pity on him and bless. Then, all her
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worries would over.
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V. Rearrange the jumbled words and phrases to form meaningful sentences: How does the snake use its venom? a) snake / poisonous / uses / the/ to / its enemy / and / its prey / venom / kill ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ b) injects / it / into / through / porous / the venom / the body / its fangs ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ c) its effect / until / mixed / blood / in the / snake venom / the / does / show / not / it gets ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ d) some / reach / time / to / takes / it / quite / venom / for the / blood stream / the ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ VI. Rearrange the jumbled words and phrases to form meaningful sentences: 1. of / care/ is important / Post-operative / quick recovery / for / a patient ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. the /first / doctor / a diagnosis / makes / an illness / of ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. he or she / what / then / kind / decides / of treatment / needed / is ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________
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