Section A: Editing
Question 1
Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines, about the inventor of the World Wide Web. The first and last lines are correct. For the remaining ten lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Circle the incorrect word and write the correct word in the space provided. The correct word you provide must not change the original meaning of the sentence.
Examples:
I arrived to my destination at 2pm
Error: to
Answer: at
Time Berners-Lee is the man who invented the World Wide Web which is used by
million every day to find out information. Through its links, people share ideas, make
friends and learn to understand others. What do we know about this man whom
changed the way we communicate? According to his website, he is born in
London and, as a boy, he liked model railways best than sport. As he grew up, he
became very interested in computers. He built her first computer using parts from
an old TV set. When he left school, he studies Physics at Oxford University.
Later, when he was working in Switzerland, he realised that searching in most
information were very slow because different computers used different
programs. He wanted to working on ways of bringing everything together in a giant,
linked web. This would be available to anyone, anywhere, at any time, freely of charge.
He thought of calling it Enquire but later he decided that the World Wide Web was better.