The document contains a series of sample exercises designed for revision purposes, focusing on identifying and correcting grammatical errors in various texts. Each exercise consists of 10 questions based on specific passages, emphasizing that only the incorrect lines need to be corrected, while the first and last lines remain unchanged. The texts include fables, stories about individuals, and informative descriptions, illustrating different grammatical challenges.

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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]
Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.
There once live a poor country mouse and a rich town mouse. The rich mouse
was a good friend of the country mouse.
The poor country mouse invited he friend, the town mouse, to his home
for dinner. The town mouse arrive all dressed up. As he looked around the
countryside, he muttered to himself, "What a different place this is! There is neither
carriages nor stores. I saw nothing but old-looking houses and fields."
He was then led into an hut. Sweet corn, peas, barley and small pieces of
cheese was placed in front of the guest who was grumbling with disgust.
"Please help yourself, though it's not many of a meal," said the country mouse.
Taking a bit of barley, the town mouse said to the host mouse, "How can you
stand living on such poor food? Why don't you visit I in my town house. I will treat
you for a big feast."
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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]
Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.
One delightful summer's day, a duck sit on her nest waiting for her eggs to
hatch. A shell cracked. Than one after another, the sweet creatures hatched. When
the largest egg do not break, the mother duck became worried.
A nosy old duck paid her a visit or said, "This one must be a turkey's egg.
Just leave them."
At last, the larger egg cracked and out jumped a large duckling.
"How ugly ! No doubt this is a turkey's children. If you put it in the water it
will never learn to swim," the old duck say.
As it was such a sunny day, the mother duck decided to take she family for a
swim. She jump into the water and the little ducklings followed her, splashing about.
The ugly duckling also jumped in and paddled along happily from his family.
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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]
Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.
Suthasinee Noi-in is better known by she nickname Mae Tiew (Mother Tiew)
among the AIDS/HIV orphans live in Home Hug Orphanage. Though she established
it on 1987, it took her more than ten years to turn what was once a makeshift shelter
into a properly run orphanage in Yasothon in the northeastern province off Thailand.
Suthasinee’s devotion to her cause come under the national limelight in 2007 when
her story were turned into a TV commercial for a life insurance company. The
popular ad show the 54-year-old dedicating herself to maintaining and supporting
these children despite suffering by cancer herself. But “fragile” is not a word you
would use to describe that average-sized, dark-skinned woman who seems to glow
even without some make-up. If she were, hundreds of children might not be alive
today. Her desire to helping others started over 25 years ago at university when she
joined a volunteer camp to help poor farmers in the province.
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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]
Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.
After the morning hustle and bustle, the atmosphere on Tai-tung county’s Central
Market quietens as every stall shuts for the day and their owners return to the comfort
of their homes. A lone lamp shines on a vegetable stall. With head bowed, Chen Shu-
Chu silently sorts out the vegetable leaves as she waits for the occasional afternoon
customer.
Decades of hard working have caused the fingers on the right hand to curl and
joints to swell; her feet have deformed slightly. Chen lead her life with a daily
routine – waking on at three in the morning, she makes her way to the vegetable
wholesaler and sets up her stall, whom she tends till seven or eight in the evening.
Being the first to arrive and last to leave, the other stall owners has fondly given her
the title of ‘market manager’. In the dark and damp market, Chen, nearing hers
sixties, holds the stall her father left her dearly. Yuan-Jin Vegetables is her
everything. With her vegetables sells at “a bundle for 30 dollars, three bundles for
50”, Chen earns only marginal profits. Yet, her frugality has allow her to donate
about NT$10 million ($321,550) towards various charitable cause, including helping
schools, orphanages and poor children.
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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]
Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.
In 2001, Fernandes was the vice president for ASEAN on Warner Music South
East Asia. One night, he saw a Easy Jet television ad and got interested in the
concept off low-cost carriers.
He realised that was what he wanted to do. He called his wife and told her of his
plan, and she couldn’t stop laughing.Fernandes mortgage his house and then rallied a
couple of he buddies in the music industry to set up Tune Air Sdn. Bhd. The
Malaysian government, however, turned up the license application. Fernandes
quickly arranged a meet with then Prime Minister Dr Tun Mahathir Mohamad. Dr
Mahathir suggested that, instead of getting an license, Fernandes should buy the
fledgling AirAsia, a heavy indebted subsidiary of a government-owned
conglomerate.With youthful audacity he announced, “I will buys AirAsia for one
Malaysian ringgit!” He got this reply: “Yes, you can buy it tomorrow.”
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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]
Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.
A flood is a overflow of water that submerges land which is usually dry.
Floods can happen in flat or low-lying areas when the ground is saturated and water
either cannot run of or cannot run off quickly enough to stop accumulating. This may
be followed by a river flood as water moves away from the floodplain onto local
rivers and stream.
Floods will also occur if water falls on an impermeable surface, such
as concrete, paving and frozen ground, and cannot rapidly dissipate into the ground.
Localized heavy rain from a series of storms moving beneath the same area can cause
areal flash flood when the rate of rainfall exceeds the drainage capacity of the area.
When these occurs on tilled fields, it can result in a muddy flood where sediments are
picked up by run off and carry as suspended matter or bed load.
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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]
Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious diseases of humans and other
animals cause by parasitic protozoans (a type of unicellular microorganism) of the
genus Plasmodium. Commonly, the disease is transmitted by a biting from an
infected female Anopheles mosquito, who introduces the organisms from its saliva
into a person's circulatory system. In the blood, the parasites travel from the liver to
mature or reproduce. Malaria causes symptoms that typically
include fever and headache, which in severe cases will progress to coma or death.
Disease transmission can be reduced by preventing mosqiuto bites by using
mosquito nets and insect repellents, or with mosquito-control measure such as
spraying insecticides and draining stand water. The disease is widespread
in tropical and subtropical regions at a broad band around the equator, including
much of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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