Textual Error Correction Suggestions 2026
1. THE NIGHT TRAIN AT DEOLI (Ruskin Bond) — 25 Error Corrections
1. I would leave the plains early in May and returning late in July.
A) returned
B) return
C) returns
D) returnable
Answer: B) return
2. It marked the beginning of the heavy jungle of the Indian Terai.
A) jungles
B) jungly
C) jungled
D) jungling
Answer: A) jungles
3. The station would be dim lit with electric bulbs and oil-lamps.
A) dimmer
B) dimly
C) dimness
D) dimmest
Answer: B) dimly
4. The jungle across the railway tracks would just be vision in the faint light of dawn.
A) visible
B) visibility
C) visibly
D) visual
Answer: A) visible
5. Presently Deoli would be left behind and forgetting.
A) forgot
B) forgotten
C) forget
D) forgetful
Answer: B) forgotten
6. I used to wondering what happened in Deoli, behind the station walls.
A) wondered
B) wonder
C) wonders
D) wonderful
Answer: B) wonder
7. I decided that one day I will get off the train at Deoli.
A) would
B) can
C) shall
D) ought
Answer: A) would
8. I was eighteen, visited my grandmother, and the night train stopped at Deoli.
A) visiting
B) visit
C) visitor
D) visitation
Answer: A) visiting
9. When she came to my window, she stopping..
A) stopped
B) stops
C) stop
D) had stop
Answer: A) stopped
10. She stood by my window for some time and neither of us say anything.
A) saying
B) said
C) says
D) spoken
Answer: B) said
11. I stood wait on the platform, looking the other way.
A) waiting
B) waited
C) waits
D) waiter
Answer: A) waiting
12. The owner of the stall was busy serve tea somewhere on the train.
A) served
B) serving
C) server
D) serves
Answer: B) serving
13. The girl follow me behind the stall.
A) followed
B) following
C) follows
D) follower
Answer: A) followed
14. "Are you surely you don't want a basket?" she said.
A) sure
B) sureness
C) surer
D) surest
Answer: A) sure
15. "All right, give me one," I said, and I take the one on top.
A) taken
B) took
C) takes
D) taking
Answer: B) took
16. It was lost in the clang of the bell and the hissing of the engine.
A) clanging
B) clanged
C) clangs
D) clangorously
Answer: A) clanging
17. I had to ran back to my compartment.
A) run
B) running
C) runs
D) runner
Answer: A) run
18. I watching her until the signal-box came in the way.
A) watched
B) watches
C) watch
D) had watch
Answer: A) watched
19. I sat up awaken for the rest of the journey.
A) awake
B) awaking
C) awakes
D) awaked
Answer: A) awake
20. When I reached Dehra the incident became blur and distant.
A) blurred
B) blurring
C) blurs
D) blurriness
Answer: A) blurred
21. When she saw me, her dark eyes were suddenly fill with light.
A) filled
B) filling
C) fills
D) filler
Answer: A) filled
22. I took the baskets from her hand and putting them down on the ground.
A) put
B) puts
C) putted
D) to put
Answer: A) put
23. I was deep disappointed, and overcome by a sense of foreboding.
A) deeply
B) deeper
C) depth
D) deepness
Answer: A) deeply
24. All I saw was a mango tree and a dust road leading into the jungle.
A) dusty
B) dusting
C) dusted
D) dustiness
Answer: A) dusty
25. I prefer to keep hope and dreaming, and looking out of the window.
A) hoping
B) hoped
C) hopes
D) hopeful
Answer: A) hoping
2. STRONG ROOTS (A.P.J. Abdul Kalam) — 25 Error Corrections
1. I was born into a middle-class Tamil family in the islands town of Rameswaram.
A) island
B) islander
C) islanded
D) isles
Answer: A) island
2. My father possessed great innately wisdom and a true generosity of spirit.
A) innate
B) innateness
C) inbornly
D) innerly
Answer: A) innate
3. I would say mine was a very secure childhood, material and emotionally.
A) materially
B) materialistic
C) materiality
D) materials
Answer: A) materially
4. My father would take me to a very old mosque in our locality for evenings prayers.
A) evening
B) eveningly
C) evens
D) eventide
Answer: A) evening
5. I was totally convincing that the Arabic prayers reached God.
A) convinced
B) convince
C) convinces
D) conviction
Answer: A) convinced
6. People of different religions would be sitting outside, waited for him.
A) waiting
B) wait
C) waits
D) waiter
Answer: A) waiting
7. Many of them offered bowl of water to my father.
A) bowls
B) bowling
C) bowled
D) bowler
Answer: A) bowls
8. My father would dip his fingertips in the water and saying a prayer.
A) say
B) said
C) says
D) says so
Answer: A) say
9. This water was then carrying home for invalids.
A) carried
B) carry
C) carries
D) carrier
Answer: A) carried
10. I also remember people visiting our home to offer thanks after being cure</u>.
A) cured
B) curing
C) cures
D) curable
Answer: A) cured
11. My father always smiling and asked them to thank Allah, the merciful.
A) smiled
B) smiles
C) smile
D) smiley
Answer: A) smiled
12. One of the most vividly memories of my early childhood is of the two men in traditional attire.
A) vivid
B) vividness
C) vivider
D) vividest
Answer: A) vivid
13. They discussed spiritual matter in simple Tamil.
A) matters
B) mattering
C) mattered
D) material
Answer: A) matters
14. "When you pray," he said, "you transcending your body and become a part of the cosmos."
A) transcend
B) transcended
C) transcends
D) transcendent
Answer: A) transcend
15. "The cosmos knows no division of wealth, age, castes</u>, or creed."
A) caste
B) casting
C) cast
D) casted
Answer: A) caste
16. "Every human being is a specifically element within the whole of the manifest divine Being."
A) specific
B) specification
C) specified
D) specificity
Answer: A) specific
17. "So why be fear of difficulties, sufferings and problems?"
A) afraid
B) fearful of
C) fearing
D) frighted
Answer: A) afraid
18. "When troubles come, try to understood the relevance of your sufferings."
A) understand
B) understanding
C) understands
D) understandable
Answer: A) understand
19. "Adversity always presents opportunities for introspect</u>."
A) introspection
B) introspective
C) introspected
D) introspecting
Answer: A) introspection
20. "Whenever human beings finding themselves alone, they start looking for company."
A) find
B) found
C) finds
D) finder
Answer: A) find
21. "Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to helped them."
A) help
B) helping
C) helps
D) helpful
Answer: A) help
22. "Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire find its own special helper."
A) finds
B) finding
C) found
D) had find
Answer: A) finds
23. "This is not a correctly approach at all and should never be followed."
A) correct
B) correction
C) corrective
D) corrected
Answer: A) correct
24. He started his day at 4 a.m. by read the namaz before dawn.
A) reading
B) reads
C) reader
D) readed
Answer: A) reading
25. I have tried to understand the fundamentally truths revealed to me by my father.
A) fundamental
B) fundament
C) fundamentalism
D) founded
Answer: A) fundamental
3. THE BET (Anton Chekhov) — 25 Error Corrections
1. The majority of the guests disapproving of the death penalty.
A) disapproved
B) disapprove
C) disapproves
D) had disapprove
Answer: A) disapproved
2. They considered that form of punishment out of date and immorality</u>.
A) immoral
B) immorally
C) unmoral
D) non-moral
Answer: A) immoral
3. "To lived anyhow is better than not at all."
A) live
B) living
C) lives
D) lively
Answer: A) live
4. The banker, who was younger and more nervously in those days, became excited.
A) nervous
B) nervousness
C) nervy
D) un-nervous
Answer: A) nervous
5. "I'll bet you two million you wouldn't stay in solitude confinement for five years."
A) solitary
B) solitarily
C) solitariness
D) solely
Answer: A) solitary
6. "You stake your millions and I staking my freedom!"
A) stake
B) staked
C) stakes
D) staker
Answer: A) stake
7. The banker was delighting at the bet.
A) delighted
B) delight
C) delightful
D) delightedly
Answer: A) delighted
8. "Voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bore than compulsory."
A) bear
B) borne
C) bearing
D) bears
Answer: A) bear
9. The agreement binding the young man to stay there exactly fifteen years.
A) bound
B) binded
C) bounds
D) boundary
Answer: A) bound
10. The prisoner suffered severely from lonely and depression.
A) loneliness
B) lonelily
C) loner
D) aloneness
Answer: A) loneliness
11. The sounds of the piano could be hear continually day and night.
A) heard
B) hearing
C) hears
D) hearer
Answer: A) heard
12. In the second year the piano was silently in the lodge.
A) silent
B) silence
C) silencer
D) silencing
Answer: A) silent
13. He spent hours writing, and in the morning tear up all that he had written.
A) tore
B) torn
C) tearing
D) tears
Answer: A) tore
14. In the second half of the sixth year the prisoner began zealous studying languages.
A) zealously
B) zeal
C) zealousness
D) zealousity
Answer: A) zealously
15. "The geniuses of all ages speak different languages, but the same flame burn in them all."
A) burns
B) burning
C) burned
D) burner
Answer: A) burns
16. The banker ordered two shots to be firing in the garden.
A) fired
B) fire
C) fires
D) firer
Answer: A) fired
17. The prisoner sat immovable at the table and read nothing but the Gospels.
A) immovably
B) immobility
C) moved
D) unmoving
Answer: A) immovably
18. In the last two years of his confinement the prisoner read an immensely quantity of books.
A) immense
B) immensity
C) immenser
D) immensest
Answer: A) immense
19. "To-morrow at twelve o'clock he will regained his freedom."
A) regain
B) regaining
C) regains
D) regainment
Answer: A) regain
20. "The one means of being saved from bankruptcy and disgrace are the death of that man!"
A) is
B) were
C) was
D) being
Answer: A) is
21. Trying to make no noisy</u>, he took the key from a fireproof safe.
A) noise
B) noisily
C) noisiness
D) noises
Answer: A) noise
22. When the match go out the old man peeped through the little window.
A) went
B) gone
C) going
D) goes
Answer: A) went
23. His hair was already streak with silver.
A) streaked
B) streaking
C) streaks
D) streaky
Answer: A) streaked
24. "I despising freedom and life and health and all worldly blessings."
A) despise
B) despised
C) despises
D) despisable
Answer: A) despise
25. "I shall go out from here five hours before the time fixing</u>."
A) fixed
B) fix
C) fixes
D) fixture
Answer: A) fixed
4. OUR CASUARINA TREE (Toru Dutt) — 25 Error Corrections
1. Like a huge Python, wound round and round the rugged trunk.
A) winding
B) wind
C) winds
D) winded
Answer: A) winding
2. The rugged trunk, indenting deep with scars up to its summit near the stars.
A) indented
B) indent
C) indents
D) indentation
Answer: A) indented
3. In whose embraces bound no other tree can live.
A) could
B) shall
C) will
D) may
Answer: A) could
4. The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hang in crimson clusters.
A) hung
B) hanging
C) hanged
D) hangs
Answer: A) hung
5. Whereon all day are gather bird and bee.
A) gathered
B) gathering
C) gathers
D) gatherer
Answer: A) gathered
6. And oft at nights the garden overflowed with one sweet song.
A) overflows
B) overflowing
C) overflow
D) overflowen
Answer: A) overflows
7. Sung dark from our tree, while men repose.
A) darkling
B) darkly
C) darkness
D) darkened
Answer: A) darkling
8. When first my casement is wide open throw at dawn.
A) thrown
B) threw
C) throwing
D) throws
Answer: A) thrown
9. My eyes delighting on it rest.
A) delighted
B) delight
C) delightful
D) delightedly
Answer: A) delighted
10. A gray baboon sits statue alone watching the sunrise.
A) statue-like
B) statutory
C) statuesque
D) statued
Answer: A) statue-like
11. While on lower boughs his puniness offspring leap about and play.
A) puny
B) punily
C) punier
D) puniest
Answer: A) puny
12. And far and near kokilas hails the day.
A) hail
B) hailed
C) hailing
D) hailer
Answer: A) hail
13. And to their pastures wended our sleepy cows.
A) wend
B) wends
C) wending
D) wander
Answer: A) wend
14. The water-lilies spring, like snow enmassing</u>.
A) enmassed
B) enmass
C) enmasses
D) massed
Answer: A) enmassed
15. Dearly is the Casuarina to my soul.
A) Dear
B) Dearest
C) Dearness
D) Deared
Answer: A) Dear
16. Beneath it we have play</u>; though years may roll.
A) played
B) playing
C) plays
D) player
Answer: A) played
17. O sweet companions, love with love intense.
A) loved
B) loving
C) loves
D) lovely
Answer: A) loved
18. For your sakes, shall the tree be ever dearly</u>.
A) dear
B) dearest
C) dearness
D) deared
Answer: A) dear
19. Blend with your images, it shall arise in memory.
A) Blent
B) Blending
C) Blends
D) Blendedly
Answer: A) Blent
20. Till the hot tears blinded mine eyes!
A) blind
B) blinding
C) blinds
D) blindly
Answer: A) blind
21. What is that dirge murmur that I hear?
A) dirge-like
B) dirgeful
C) dirging
D) dirges
Answer: A) dirge-like
22. It is the tree's lament, an eerily speech.
A) eerie
B) eeriness
C) eerier
D) eeriest
Answer: A) eerie
23. That hap to the unknown land may reach.
A) haply
B) hapless
C) happily
D) haphazard
Answer: A) haply
24. Therefore I fain would consecrated a lay unto thy honor.
A) consecrate
B) consecrating
C) consecration
D) consecrates
Answer: A) consecrate
25. May Love defends thee from Oblivion's curse.
A) defend
B) defended
C) defending
D) defensive
Answer: A) defend
5. ULYSSES (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) — 25 Error Corrections
1. It little profit that an idle king, by this still hearth.
A) profits
B) profited
C) profiting
D) profitable
Answer: A) profits
2. Match'd with an aging wife, I mete and dole unequal laws.
A) aged
B) ageless
C) age
D) ager
Answer: A) aged
3. I meted and dole unequal laws unto a savage race.
A) mete
B) meting
C) metes
D) meter
Answer: A) mete
4. That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and knows not me.
A) know
B) knew
C) knowing
D) known
Answer: A) know
5. I cannot rested from travel: I will drink life to the lees.
A) rest
B) resting
C) rests
D) to rest
Answer: A) rest
6. All times I have enjoy greatly, have suffer'd greatly.
A) enjoy'd
B) enjoying
C) enjoys
D) enjoyment
Answer: A) enjoy'd
7. Both with those that loving me, and alone.
A) loved
B) love
C) loves
D) lover
Answer: A) loved
8. Thro' scud drifts the rainy Hyades vext the dim sea.
A) scudding
B) scudded
C) scuds
D) scudder
Answer: A) scudding
9. I am become a name; for always roam with a hungry heart.
A) roaming
B) roamed
C) roams
D) roamer
Answer: A) roaming
10. Much have I saw and known; cities of men and manners.
A) seen
B) see
C) seeing
D) sees
Answer: A) seen
11. Myself not least, but honour of them all.
A) honour'd
B) honouring
C) honours
D) honourable
Answer: A) honour'd
12. And drank delight of battle with my peers.
A) drunk
B) drinking
C) drinks
D) drink
Answer: A) drunk
13. Far on the ring plains of windy Troy.
A) ringing
B) rang
C) rung
D) rings
Answer: A) ringing
14. I am a part of all that I have meet</u>.
A) met
B) meeting
C) meets
D) meeted
Answer: A) met
15. Gleams that untravelling world whose margin fades for ever.
A) untravell'd
B) untravel
C) untravels
D) untraveler
Answer: A) untravell'd
16. How dully it is to pause, to make an end.
A) dull
B) dullness
C) duller
D) dullest
Answer: A) dull
17. To rust unburnishing</u>, not to shine in use!
A) unburnish'd
B) unburnish
C) burnished
D) unburnishingly
Answer: A) unburnish'd
18. As tho' to breathe were life! Life pile on life were all too little.
A) piled
B) piling
C) piles
D) pileup
Answer: A) piled
19. Every hour is save from that eternal silence.
A) saved
B) saving
C) saves
D) saviour
Answer: A) saved
20. This gray spirit yearn in desire to follow knowledge like a sinking star.
A) yearning
B) yearned
C) yearns
D) yearnful
Answer: A) yearning
21. Beyond the utmostly bound of human thought.
A) utmost
B) utter
C) utterly
D) outermost
Answer: A) utmost
22. This is my son, my own Telemachus, to whom I leave the sceptre.
A) mine
B) me
C) myself
D) mine's
Answer: A) mine
23. Most blame is he, centred in the sphere of common duties.
A) blameless
B) blaming
C) blamed
D) blameful
Answer: A) blameless
24. Old age have yet his honour and his toil.
A) hath
B) has
C) having
D) had
Answer: A) hath
25. Made weakly by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
A) weak
B) weakness
C) weaken
D) weakened
Answer: A) weak
### 1. THE NIGHT TRAIN AT DEOLI (Ruskin Bond)
1. When I was at college I used to spent my summer vacations in Dehra.
A) spend
B) spending
C) spends
D) spended
Answer: A) spend
2. The train would reaching Deoli at about five in the morning.
A) reached
B) reach
C) reaches
D) had reached
Answer: B) reach
3. Deoli had only lone platform, an office for the stationmaster and a waiting room.
A) one
B) lonely
C) a lone
D) ones
Answer: C) a lone
4. The platform boasted a tea stall, a fruit vendor, and a few strays dogs.
A) straying
B) strayed
C) stray
D) strayed's
Answer: C) stray
5. Nobody got off the train and nobody got on.
A) in
B) upon
C) into
D) at
Answer: A) in
6. I always felt sorry for that loneliness little platform.
A) lonely
B) lonelier
C) solely
D) lonelily
Answer: A) lonely
7. A girl came down the platform, sell baskets.
A) sold
B) selling
C) sale
D) seller
Answer: B) selling
8. It was a cold morning and the girl had a shawl threw across her shoulders.
A) throw
B) thrown
C) throwing
D) throws
Answer: B) thrown
9. Her feet were bare and her clothes were old, but she walked dignity.
A) with dignity
B) dignifiedly
C) dignify
D) in dignify
Answer: A) with dignity
10. She saw that I was looking at her intent, but at first she pretended not to notice.
A) intention
B) intently
C) intentional
D) intensely
Answer: B) intently
11. She had a pale skin, set off by shining black hair.
A) shined
B) shiny
C) shine
D) shines
Answer: B) shiny
12. And then those eyes, searching and eloquent, meeting mine.
A) met
B) meets
C) meet
D) were meeting
Answer: A) met
13. I found myself leave my seat and going to the carriage door.
A) left
B) leaves
C) leaving
D) to leave
Answer: C) leaving
14. A kettle was boiling over on a small fire, but the owner of the stall is busy.
A) were
B) was
C) been
D) being
Answer: B) was
15. We stood looking at each other for which seemed a very long time.
A) what
B) that
C) where
D) who
Answer: A) what
16. I gave her a rupee, hardly dared to touch her fingers.
A) daring
B) dare
C) dares
D) had dared
Answer: A) daring
17. As she was about to speak, the guard blow his whistle.
A) blowed
B) blew
C) blown
D) blowing
Answer: B) blew
18. The carriage shuddered and jolt forward.
A) jolts
B) jolted
C) jolting
D) was jolt
Answer: B) jolted
19. She was alone on the platform and she do not move.
A) did
B) does
C) done
D) doing
Answer: A) did
20. I could not rid my mind of the picture of her dark, smoulder eyes.
A) smouldering
B) smouldered
C) smoulders
D) smoulderingly
Answer: A) smouldering
21. I sprang off the footboard and wave to her.
A) waving
B) waved
C) waves
D) had wave
Answer: B) waved
22. She did not go down the length of the train, but came straightly to the tea stall.
A) straight
B) straighten
C) straighter
D) straighted
Answer: A) straight
23. I was determined that I wouldn't stand helpless before her.
A) helplessly
B) helplessing
C) unhelped
D) helplessness
Answer: A) helplessly
24. The previous station master had been transfer to another post.
A) transferring
B) transferred
C) transfers
D) transferal
Answer: B) transferred
25. I never break my journey at Deoli, but I pass through as oftener as I can.
A) often
B) oftenest
C) frequent
D) more often
Answer: A) often
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### 2. STRONG ROOTS (A.P.J. Abdul Kalam)
1. I was born in a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram.
A) into
B) onto
C) from
D) at
Answer: A) into
2. My father, Jainulabdeen, had neither much formal education or much wealth.
A) and
B) nor
C) but
D) yet
Answer: B) nor
3. He possessed great innate wisdom and a true generous of spirit.
A) generously
B) generousness
C) generosity
D) genial
Answer: C) generosity
4. My mother's lineage was the more distinguish.
A) distinguishing
B) distinguished
C) distinguishably
D) distinction
Answer: B) distinguished
5. We lived in our ancestor house, which was built in the middle of the 19th century.
A) ancestral
B) ancestry
C) ancestrally
D) anciently
Answer: A) ancestral
6. It was a fairly large pucca house, make of limestone and brick.
A) making
B) makes
C) made
D) maiden
Answer: C) made
7. My austere father used to avoided all inessential comforts and luxuries.
A) avoids
B) avoiding
C) avoid
D) avoidable
Answer: C) avoid
8. I would say mine was a very security childhood, materially and emotionally.
A) secure
B) securely
C) securing
D) securedly
Answer: A) secure
9. The Shiva temple made Rameswaram so fame to pilgrims.
A) famously
B) famous
C) famed
D) faming
Answer: B) famous
10. Our mosque was an old one where my father would take me for even prayers.
A) evenings
B) evening
C) evening's
D) eventide
Answer: B) evening
11. I had not the faintest idea of the meaning of the Arabic prayers, but I was total convinced that they reached God.
A) totally
B) totaling
C) totality
D) totalize
Answer: A) totally
12. When my father came out of the mosque, people of different religions would be sit outside.
A) sat
B) sitting
C) sits
D) seatedly
Answer: B) sitting
13. Many of them offered bowls of water to my father, who would dipped his fingertips in them.
A) dipping
B) dip
C) dips
D) be dip
Answer: B) dip
14. This water was then carry home for invalids.
A) carrying
B) carried
C) carries
D) carrier
Answer: B) carried
15. The high priest of Rameswaram temple was a very closely friend of my father's.
A) close
B) closed
C) closing
D) closeness
Answer: A) close
16. One of the most vivid memories of my early childhood is of the two men, each in tradition attire.
A) traditionally
B) traditional
C) traditions
D) traditionalist
Answer: B) traditional
17. They discussed spiritualize matters.
A) spiritual
B) spiritually
C) spirit
D) spirituality
Answer: A) spiritual
18. My father could convey complex spiritual concepts in very simple, down-earth Tamil.
A) down-to-earth
B) down-earthing
C) down-to-earthed
D) earthy
Answer: A) down-to-earth
19. "Adversity always present opportunities for introspection."
A) presents
B) presented
C) presenting
D) is present
Answer: A) presents
20. Whenever human beings find themselves alone, they start look for company.
A) looked
B) looking
C) looks
D) to looked
Answer: B) looking
21. "I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiation demonic forces with prayers and offerings."
A) propitiate
B) propitiated
C) propitiating
D) propitiatory
Answer: A) propitiate
22. This was not a correct approach at all and should never follow.
A) been followed
B) be followed
C) being follow
D) following
Answer: B) be followed
23. He started his day at 4 a.m. by read the namaz before dawn.
A) reads
B) reading
C) reader
D) readed
Answer: B) reading
24. He would return with about a dozen coconuts tied together thrown over his shoulder.
A) throw
B) threw
C) throwing
D) thrown
(Grammatical context: thrown is standard text; error prompt: tied together threw over his shoulder)
A) thrown
B) throw
C) throwing
D) throws
Answer: A) thrown
25. I have endeavored to emulation my father in my own world of science and technology.
A) emulate
B) emulated
C) emulating
D) emulative
Answer: A) emulate
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### 3. THE BET (Anton Chekhov)
1. It was a dark autumnal night. (Textual line: It was a dark autumn night)
A) autumn
B) autumny
C) autumns
D) autumnal
Answer: A) autumn
2. The majority of the guests disapproves of the death penalty.
A) disapproved
B) disapproving
C) disapprove
D) had disapprove
Answer: A) disapproved
3. Capital punishment kills a man at once, but lifelong imprisonment kills him slow.
A) slowly
B) slowness
C) slower
D) more slow
Answer: A) slowly
4. The banker struck the table with his fist and shouts at the young man.
A) shouted
B) shouting
C) shout
D) has shouted
Answer: A) shouted
5. "I'll bet you two million you wouldn't stay in solitary confinement for fifteen years." (Banker's original offer)
A) five
B) ten
C) twenty
D) three
Answer: A) five
6. At supper the banker made fun of the young man and say:
A) says
B) saying
C) said
D) had say
Answer: C) said
7. "The thought that you have the right to step out in liberty will poisoned your whole existence."
A) poison
B) poisoning
C) poisons
D) be poison
Answer: A) poison
8. The agreement provided for every detail that would make his imprisonment strict solitary.
A) strictly
B) strictness
C) stricter
D) strictest
Answer: A) strictly
9. The slightest attempt to break the conditions releasing the banker from the obligation.
A) released
B) release
C) releases
D) had release
Answer: A) released
10. In the first year, the prisoner suffered severe from loneliness and depression.
A) severely
B) severity
C) severest
D) severeness
Answer: A) severely
11. He refused wine because wine excite the desires.
A) excites
B) excited
C) exciting
D) excitement
Answer: A) excites
12. In the second year the piano was silence in the lodge.
A) silently
B) silent
C) silencing
D) silenced
Answer: B) silent
13. In the fifth year the prisoner spent doing nothing but eat and drinking.
A) ate
B) eaten
C) eating
D) eats
Answer: C) eating
14. In the second half of the sixth year, he began zealous studying languages.
A) zealously
B) zeal
C) zealousness
D) zealousity
Answer: A) zealously
15. In the course of four years, some six hundred volumes were procure at his request.
A) procuring
B) procured
C) procures
D) procurement
Answer: B) procured
16. The banker ordered two shots to be fire in the garden.
A) fired
B) firing
C) fires
D) firings
Answer: A) fired
17. Then after the tenth year, the prisoner sat immovably and read nothing but the Gospel. (Grammar/singular-plural check)
A) Gospels
B) Gospelled
C) Gospelling
D) Gospel's
Answer: A) Gospels
18. He read an immense quantity of books quite indiscriminate.
A) indiscriminately
B) indiscrimination
C) indiscriminateful
D) indiscriminated
Answer: A) indiscriminately
19. Desperate gambling on the Stock Exchange had led to the decline of his fortune. (Grammatical correction check)
A) decline
B) declining
C) declined
D) declination
Answer: A) decline
20. The proud millionaire had become a banker of middle rank.
A) middling
B) midway
C) middlely
D) mid
Answer: A) middling
21. "The one means of being saved from bankruptcy and disgrace are the death of that man!"
A) is
B) was
C) were
D) being
Answer: A) is
22. Trying to make no noise, he took from a fireproof safe the key of the doors.
A) door
B) dooring
C) doors'
D) door's
Answer: A) door
23. A candle was burning dim in the prisoner's room.
A) dimly
B) dimness
C) dimmer
D) dimmish
Answer: A) dimly
24. His face was yellow with an earth tint in it.
A) earthy
B) earthen
C) earthliness
D) earthly
Answer: A) earthy
25. "To prove to you in action how I despise all that you live by, I renunciation the two million."
A) renounce
B) renounced
C) renouncing
D) renouncive
Answer: A) renounce
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### 4. OUR CASUARINA TREE (Toru Dutt)
1. Like a huge Python, wind round and round the rugged trunk.
A) winding
B) wound
C) winds
D) winded
Answer: A) winding
2. The rugged trunk, indent deep with scars up to its summit.
A) indented
B) indenting
C) indents
D) indentation
Answer: A) indented
3. In whose embraces bound no other tree can live.
A) could
B) will
C) shall
D) may
Answer: A) could
4. But gallant the giant wears the scarf.
A) gallantly
B) gallantness
C) gallanted
D) gallantry
Answer: A) gallantly
5. Flowers are hung in crimson cluster all the boughs among.
A) clusters
B) clustering
C) clustered
D) clusterly
Answer: A) clusters
6. Whereon all day are gather bird and bee.
A) gathering
B) gathered
C) gathers
D) gatherer
Answer: B) gathered
7. And oft at nights the garden overflow with one sweet song.
A) overflows
B) overflowed
C) overflowing
D) overflowen
Answer: A) overflows
8. Sung dark from our tree, while men repose.
A) darkling
B) darkly
C) darkness
D) darked
Answer: A) darkling
9. When first my casement is wide open throw at dawn.
A) thrown
B) threw
C) throwing
D) throws
Answer: A) thrown
10. A gray baboon sits statue alone watching the sunrise.
A) statue-like
B) statuelike
C) statutory
D) statuesque
Answer: A) statue-like
11. While on lower boughs his punily offspring leap about and play.
A) puny
B) puniness
C) punier
D) puniest
Answer: A) puny
12. And far and near kokilas hails the day.
A) hail
B) hailed
C) hailing
D) hailer
Answer: A) hail
13. And to their pastures wend our sleep cows.
A) sleeping
B) sleepy
C) slept
D) sleepily
Answer: B) sleepy
14. The water-lilies spring, like snow enmass.
A) enmassed
B) enmassing
C) enmasses
D) enmassful
Answer: A) enmassed
15. But not because of its magnificent dear is the Casuarina to my soul.
A) magnificence
B) magnificently
C) magnified
D) magnifying
Answer: A) magnificence
16. Beneath it we have play; though years may roll.
A) played
B) playing
C) plays
D) player
Answer: A) played
17. For your sakes, shall the tree be ever dearly.
A) dear
B) dearest
C) deared
D) dearness
Answer: A) dear
18. Blent with your images, it shall arising in memory.
A) arise
B) arose
C) arisen
D) arises
Answer: A) arise
19. Till the hot tears blinded mine eyes!
A) blind
B) blinding
C) blinds
D) blindless
Answer: A) blind
20. What is that dirge-like murmur that I hearing?
A) hear
B) heard
C) hears
D) heareth
Answer: A) hear
21. It is the tree's lament, an eerie speech. (Check adverb/adjective context)
A) eerie
B) eerily
C) eeriness
D) eerier
Answer: A) eerie
22. That haply to the unknowing land may reach.
A) unknown
B) unknowingly
C) unknowable
D) unknow
Answer: A) unknown
23. When slumbered in his cave the water-wraiths.
A) water-wraith
B) water-wraithful
C) water-wraithing
D) water-wraith's
Answer: A) water-wraith
24. Therefore I fain would consecration a lay unto thy honor.
A) consecrate
B) consecrated
C) consecrating
D) consecrative
Answer: A) consecrate
25. May Love defend thee from Oblivion curse.
A) Oblivion's
B) Oblivious
C) Oblivionly
D) Obliviate
Answer: A) Oblivion's
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### 5. ULYSSES (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
1. It little profit that an idle king mete and dole unequal laws.
A) profits
B) profited
C) profiting
D) profitable
Answer: A) profits
2. By this still hearth, among these barrenly crags.
A) barren
B) barrenness
C) barrens
D) barer
Answer: A) barren
3. Match'd with an aging wife. (Tennyson's spelling check)
A) aged
B) age
C) ageless
D) ager
Answer: A) aged
4. That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and knows not me.
A) know
B) knew
C) knowing
D) known
Answer: A) know
5. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink life to the lee.
A) lees
B) least
C) leeward
D) leeing
Answer: A) lees
6. All times I have enjoy greatly, have suffer'd greatly.
A) enjoy'd
B) enjoying
C) enjoys
D) enjoyment
Answer: A) enjoy'd
7. When thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades vext the dim sea. (Variant/verb form check)
A) vext
B) vexing
C) vexes
D) vexation
Answer: A) vext
8. For always roaming with a hungrily heart.
A) hungry
B) hunger
C) hungering
D) hungered
Answer: A) hungry
9. Much have I saw and known; cities of men and manners.
A) seen
B) see
C) seeing
D) sees
Answer: A) seen
10. And drunk delight of battle with my peer.
A) peers
B) peering
C) peered
D) peerage
Answer: A) peers
11. Far on the ringing plains of wind Troy.
A) windy
B) winded
C) winding
D) winds
Answer: A) windy
12. I am a part of all that I have meet.
A) met
B) meets
C) meeting
D) meeted
Answer: A) met
13. Yet all experience is an arch whereon gleams that untravell'd world.
A) wherethro'
B) wherever
C) whereupon
D) whereas
Answer: A) wherethro'
14. Whose margin faded for ever and forever when I move.
A) fades
B) fading
C) fade
D) had faded
Answer: A) fades
15. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnish, not to shine in use!
A) unburnish'd
B) unburnishing
C) unburnishes
D) burnished
Answer: A) unburnish'd
16. As tho' to breathe was life!
A) were
B) is
C) are
D) being
Answer: A) were
17. Life piled on life was all too little.
A) were
B) is
C) are
D) been
Answer: A) were
18. And vile it were for some three suns to store and hoarded myself.
A) hoard
B) hoarding
C) hoards
D) hoarder
Answer: A) hoard
19. And this gray spirit yearn in desire to follow knowledge.
A) yearning
B) yearned
C) yearns
D) yearnful
Answer: A) yearning
20. Beyond the utmost bounding of human thought.
A) bound
B) boundary
C) bounded
D) boundless
Answer: A) bound
21. This is my son, my own Telemachus.
A) mine
B) me
C) myself
D) mine's
Answer: A) mine
22. Most blame is he, centred in the sphere of common duties.
A) blameless
B) blaming
C) blamed
D) blameful
Answer: A) blameless
23. The long day wanes: the slow moon climb: the deep moans round.
A) climbs
B) climbed
C) climbing
D) climber
Answer: A) climbs
24. 'T is not too late to sought a newer world.
A) seek
B) seeking
C) seeks
D) seeker
Answer: A) seek
25. Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yielded.
A) yield
B) yielding
C) yields
D) yielder
Answer: A) yield
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