Error correction exercise

Error correction exercise
Each sentence given below may contain an error. Correct the error and rewrite the sentence.
1. Six years before, Alice, a French woman, left her job and accompanied her husband to India.
2. After moving to India, Alice decided to do something different from what she is doing and started teaching blind
children in the age group of two to five years.
3. Alice not only volunteers with her own services; she emails other French nationals in Mumbai and gets them
involved with the activities of the school.
4. Tata Motors has entered into a definitive agreement with Ford on March 26 to acquire the two British luxury
brands, Jaguar and Land Rover, at an estimated 2.3 billion dollars.
5. Finance Minister said that the country’s economy was growing at the slowest pace in four years in the next 12
months as a result of a global slowdown.
6. According to scientists, black carbon, emitting from biomass burning, diesel engine exhaust and cooking fires
has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates.
7. The US space shuttle Endeavour has been landing successfully in Florida after the longest mission of its kind
to the International Space Station.
Answers
1. Six years ago, Alice, a French woman, left her job and accompanied her husband to India.
2. After moving to India, Alice decided to do something different from what she had been doing and started
teaching blind children in the age group of two to five years.
3. Alice not only volunteers with her own services; she also emails other French nationals in Mumbai and gets
them involved with the activities of the school.
4. Tata Motors entered into a definitive agreement with Ford on March 26 to acquire the two British luxury brands,
Jaguar and Land Rover, at an estimated 2.3 billion dollars.
5. Finance Minister said that the country’s economy may grow at the slowest pace in four years in the next 12
months as a result of a global slowdown.
6. According to scientists, black carbon, emitted from biomass burning, diesel engine exhaust and cooking fires
has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates.
7. The US space shuttle Endeavour has landed successfully in Florida after the longest mission of its kind to the
International Space Station.

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