Editing and Omission

English Language

Editing and Omission starts at 5 and continues till grade 12. QuestionsToday has an evolving set of questions to continuously challenge students so that their knowledge grows in Editing and Omission. How you perform is determined by your score and the time you take. When you play a quiz, your answers are evaluated in concept instead of actual words and definitions used.

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Choose the sentence with correct punctuation: (1) Where are you going (2) Where are you going. (3) Where are you going? (4) Where are you going!

Correct the following sentence by editing: 'He have finished his homework.'

Edit the following sentence for correct article usage: 'She is a honest person.'

Edit the following sentence for correct conjunction: 'He is poor but he is honest.'

Edit the following sentence for correct preposition: 'She is good in mathematics.'

Edit the following sentence for correct pronoun usage: 'Everyone must bring their own book.'

Edit the following sentence for correct tense: 'Yesterday, she go to the market.'

Edit the following sentence for correct use of 'few' and 'a few': 'Few people came to the party, so it was lively.'

Edit the following sentence for correct use of 'less' and 'fewer': 'There are less students in the class today.'

Edit the following sentence for correct use of 'much' and 'many': 'There are much people in the hall.'

Edit the following sentence for correct word order: 'Quickly the dog ran.'

Edit the following sentence for redundancy: 'He repeated the same mistake again.'

Edit the following sentence for subject-verb agreement: 'The group of students are going to the museum.'

Identify the error in the following sentence and provide the correct version: 'She don't like to play football.'

Identify the error in the sentence: 'Each of the boys have a book.'

Identify the unnecessary word in the sentence: 'She returned back to the house.'

In the sentence 'The cat sat on the mat and it was sleeping', which word can be omitted to make the sentence concise without changing its meaning?

What is the main purpose of editing in English writing?

Which word should be omitted in the sentence: 'He entered into the room quietly.'

Which word should be omitted in the sentence: 'He returned back home late.'