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Question
The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in the space provided. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied as shown.
| Error | Correction | |
| A curious thing about the developed of | developed | development |
| a motion picture is that the first groups of | (a) | ................ |
| people who made it possible wasn’t interested | (b) | ................ |
| in movies at all! The first inventions were make by | (c) | ................ |
| men who wanting to study the movement of animals. | (d) | ................ |
| Even Thomas Edison, which perfected a device | (e) | ................ |
| called ‘kinetoscope’ in 1893, think of it | (f) | ................ |
| only as a curiosity. But there were another people | (g) | ................ |
| who saw great possibilities with entertainment | (h) | ................ |
| in this invention and they began to make movies. |
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Solution
| Error | Correction | |
| A curious thing about the developed of | developed | development |
| a motion picture is that the first groups of | (a) is | was |
| people who made it possible wasn’t interested | (b) wasn’t | weren’t |
| in movies at all! The first inventions were make by | (c) make | made |
| men who wanting to study the movement of animals. | (d) wanting | wanted |
| Even Thomas Edison, which perfected a device | (e) which | who |
| called ‘kinetoscope’ in 1893, think of it | (f) think | thought |
| only as a curiosity. But there were another people | (g) another | other |
| who saw great possibilities with entertainment | (h) with | of |
| in this invention and they began to make movies. |
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