PART 1 PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION [15 MIN] Proofread the given passage on answer sheet two as instructed.
The following passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proof-read the passage and correct it in the following way:
For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "^" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line. Example
When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, [1]an it buys things in finished form and hangs them on the wall. [2]never When a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must [3]exhibit often build it.
The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have "less (1) meaning", but in fact some grammarians have called them (2) "empty" words as opposed in the "full" words of vocabulary. But (3) this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a (4) word like the is not the name of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless. there is a sharp difference in (5) meaning between "man is vile" and "the man is vile", yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. (6) Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in the (7) lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been "little words". But size is by no mean a good criterion for (8) distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we consider (9) that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart from (10) this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.