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Practice Test - Error Identification

This passage summarizes the key points made in the document: [1] The document discusses errors identified in a passage about World Book Day, including taking a place which should be taking place in line 1. [2] It then provides a passage about musical talent in children and asks the reader to identify 10 lexical and grammatical mistakes. [3] Finally, it provides another passage about language acquisition and asks the reader to identify 11 mistakes, with the first one being much women which should be many women.

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Practice Test - Error Identification

This passage summarizes the key points made in the document: [1] The document discusses errors identified in a passage about World Book Day, including taking a place which should be taking place in line 1. [2] It then provides a passage about musical talent in children and asks the reader to identify 10 lexical and grammatical mistakes. [3] Finally, it provides another passage about language acquisition and asks the reader to identify 11 mistakes, with the first one being much women which should be many women.

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ERROR IDENTIFICATION

The passage below contains 6 errors. For questions 1-5, indicate the line number, the
errors and correction in the space below. The first one has been done as an example.

WORLD BOOK DAY


1 This year's World Book Day (WBD), which is taking a place on March 2,
2 hoping to encourage everyone, and special children, to discover the joy of
3 reading.
4 Schools and libraries are getting involved, with a packed schedule of events
5 designed to bring books to life. There will be writers popping into schools to
6 read from their books and answer questions, and telling-story events.
7 Children will also be able to take part in reading so that they really have a
8 chance to engage with the books.
9 As long as hoping to encourage children to catch the reading bug. WBD also
10 hopes to get reluctant adults hooked on books. So, for the first time, WBD
11 will also have an adult focus, with the launch of Quick Reads, a selection of
12 short, fast-paced stories by well-known authors. The first set of Quick Reads
13 will be published on WBD, with a further collection of books being released
14 latter in the summer.

Line 1: taking a place => taking place

There are 10 lexical and grammatical mistakes in the following passage. Identify and
correct them.
1 Among all the abilities with which an individual may be endowed
2 musical talent appear earliest in life. Very young children can exhibit
3 musical precocity for different reasons. Some develop exceptional skill
4 as a result of a well-designed instructed regime, such as the Suzuki
5 method for the violin. Some have the good fortune to be born into a
6 musical family in a household filled of music. In a number of interesting
7 cases, musical talent is part of an otherwise disabled condition such as
8 autism or mental retardation. A musically gifted child has an inborn
9 talent; however, the extent to what the talent is expressed publicly will
10 depend upon the environment in which the child lives.
11 Musically gifted children master at an early age the principal
12 elements of music, include pitch and rhythm. Pitch - or melody - is more
13 central in certain culture, for example, in Eastern societies that make use
14 of tiny quarter-tone intervals. Rhythm, sounds produced at certain
15 auditory frequencies and groups according to a prescribed system, are
16 emphasized in sub-Saharan Africa, where the rhythmic ratios can be rica,
17 where very complex.

There are 10 lexical and grammatical mistakes in the following passage. Identify and
correct them.
1 Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the
2 capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce
3 and use words and sentences to communicate. Language acquisition is
4 one of the unique human traits, although non-human creatures do not
5 communicate by using language. Language acquisition usually refers
6 to first-language acquisition, that studies infants' acquisition of their native
7 to first-language acquisition, that studies infants' acquisition of their native
8 language. This is distinguished from second-language acquisition, which
9 deals with the acquisition (in both children and adults) of addition
languages.
10 The capacity to successful use language requires one to acquire a
11 range of tools including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
12 and an extensive vocabulary. Language can be vocaled as in speech, or
13 manual as in sign. Human language capacity is represented in the
14 brain. Even though human language capacity is finite, one can say and
15 understand an infinite amount of sentences, which is based in a syntactic
16 principle called recursion. Evidence suggests that every individual has
17 three recursive mechanisms that allow sentences to go indeterminately.
18 These three mechanisms are: relativization, complementation and
19 coordination. Therefore, there are actually two main guiding principles
20 in first-language acquisition, that is, speech perception always precedes
21 speech production and the gradually evolved system by which a child
22 learns a language building up one step at a time, beginning with the
23 distinction between individual phonemes.
There are 11 lexical and grammatical mistakes in the following passage. Identify and
correct them. The first one has been done as an example.

0 Much women nowadays choose to have a baby without getting married.


1 They are usually well-off, single professionals who, in their thirty, find
2 that work is not everything and so decide to have a baby. They don't want
3 to find a husband and have a régular family but only want to be mothers
4 They find a partner to be the father of their baby, but the man doesn't
5 often know that the baby will be him. The woman claim they don't need a
6 man to keep a family and bring up a child: they prefer to do it on her own.
7 Psychologists say that a child can develop normally inly in a complete
8 family with a loving mother and a loving father. The child who grows
9 with a father lacks his live and guidance, and also the role-model that a
10 father provides. This is especially important in the case of boys. In some
11 cases so children can even develop serious psychological disorders.
12 Also, the social situation of a single mother and a child whose father is
13 neither unknown of far away has to be taken into account. Despite the
14 years when a single mother would be ostracized are luckily gone, it still
15 happens that children without fathers can feel awkward at school,
16 especially when their peers boast about their own fathers.
17 The importance of a father in a child life is unquestionable. Even if the
18 fighters for the emancipation of women claim that mothers can take care
19 of their sons by themselves, the situation is a little bit different. Fathers are
20 replaceable because their love has much to say in the well-being of
children.
22 One in all single mothers are to be appreciates for their courage but at the
23 same time they should always think twice before taking this crucial
24 decision in their lives.

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