English: Find errors

English has always been a headache for many students and the reason resides in reluctant behaviour of students to practice. Here we provide five paragraphs to test your knowledge of tenses, verbs, and their usage.

Each line in the following passages contains error. Find the error.

1)
The TajMahal was build by Shah Jahan
in memory of her wife. Construction began in
1632 and was completion in 1653. The architect
was Isa Khan, who comes from Shiraz. The
beauty of the marble dome and minarets are
known throughout the world. All visitors are impress
by the dreamlike beautiful of the Taj.

2)
Long ago, before money is invented, people
use to obtain goods by bartering. To get an
axe, for example, they had to offer anything
in exchange. If the seller would not like what
was offered, it would be impossible to making the exchange

3)
Radioactivity had accidently discovered by Henri
Becquerel in 1896. After having leave a photographic plate in
a drawer with uranium, he notice that the plate had
darkened. This can’t have been caused by light, as the
plate had been wrapped in black paper. However, Becquerel
concluded whether the uranium was emitting invisible
rays that was able to  pass through the matter. Later, Pierre
Curie found that some other substances also emitting
this type of radiation. She was Marie Curie who coined the term “radioactivity”.

4)
When a diamond is find in the earth,
Its outside appear is rather dull.
Then skilful hands makes it into
a sparkled gem we all know about.
Most diamonds are sawing into two,
and every half is shaped and cut
into a round diamond. Then little
faces or facets is cut into diamond.
The average diamond is cutting into 58 facets.

5)
Before perform an operation in hospital
a doctor administer a drug or gas
to making the patient unconscious
to pain. This state of unconsciousness is
know as anaesthesia, from a greek word
who means “loss of feeling”. The substance
causing loss for feeling is called anaesthetic.

ANSWERS

(1)

a) build - built

b) her- his

c) complete- completed

d) comes- came

e) are- is

f) impress- impressed

g) beautiful- beauty

    

(2)

a) is - was

b) used -used

c) anything - something

d) would -did

e) making - make

  

(3)

a) had - was

b) leave- left

c) notice-noticed

d) can’t -couldn’t

e) however  -therefore

f) whether –that

g) was –were

h) emitting –emitted

i) she –it

  

(4)

a) find –found

b) appear – appearance 

c) makes – make

d) sparkled – sparkling

e) sawing– sawed

f) every -each

g) the- a

h) is – are

i) cutting-  cut

   

(5)

a) perform –performing

b) administer – administers

c) making –make

d) to–of

e) know-known

f) who-that

g) for-of