PT3 Error Identification Q

1. The world has made tremendous progress in (1) eradicate (1)
polio. Globally, the incidence of polio cases (2) have declined (2)
by 90 percent. However, certain (3) part of South Asia and (3)
Africa are still (3) threaten by this disease. The health (4)
authorities have still (4) get plenty to do towards (5)
(5) wipe out polio. Polio is a highly (6)
(7)infect disease. Thus, when there is a (7)
threat of epidemic many social activities are(8) call off. (8)
Schools are also (9) close. People are (9)
(10) scarced and they avoid contact with those (10)
infected with the disease.
The world has made tremendous progress in eradicate (1)
polio. Globally, the incidence of polio cases have declined (2)
by 90 percent. However, certain part of South Asia and (3)
Africa are still threaten by this disease. The health (4)
authorities have still get plenty to do towards (5)
wipe out polio. Polio is a highly (6)
infect disease. Thus, when there is a (7)
threat of epidemic many social activities are call off. (8)
Schools are also close. People are (9)
scarced and they avoid contact with those (10)
infected with the disease.
The following passage contains 10 mistakes, such as grammatical er rors, wrong
prepositions and conjunctions. Cor rect the mistakes and rewr ite the cor rect 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.