This is the sample answer for the Error Identification Exercise.

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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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5.largest
6.child
7.said
8.her
9.jumped
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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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1.living
2.in
3.of
4.came
5.was
6.showed
7.from
8.this
9.any
10.help

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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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7.are
8.selling
9.allowed
10.causes

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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 in 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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7.meeting
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10.buy

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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. Localised 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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4.streams
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8.flooding
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10.carried

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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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