Copy this file and paste it into your word processor, where you can edit it, or print it out and handwrite the edits on paper. Using the following symbols, show how the errors should be edited.
Refer to Correction Symbols, as necessary. After editing the paragraphs, check the answer key.
Seventeen articles (the) are missing from the following paragraph.
1 Sundial is probably most ancient of scientific instruments.
2 This instrument tells time by measuring passage of sun through
sky. 3 Ancient men measured time by placing a stick in ground
and by watching movement of its shadow. 4 Egyptians and Greeks
constructed first sundials, which divided each day into equal
intervals called hours. 5 By A.D. 150, Greek mathematicians used
trigonometry to plot hour lines. 6 Sundials were used from sixteenth
to nineteenth centuries as primary way of telling time. 7 Because
sundial time (or solar time) is not same as clock time, development
of mechanical clock and adoption of standard time in nineteenth
century caused sundial to lose its practical value. 8 Nonetheless,
sundials are sometimes still used today.
From Improving the Grammar of Written English: The Editing Process, Beverly Benson and Patricia Byrd
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