Name:__________________________________________________________ Date :______________ Time Limit: 30 min Editing Challenge: Spot 12 grammar mistakes. Circle the mistakes and write the correct forms above them. (hint: 3 per page) City of Joy Chapter 1 – Part 1 by Dominique Lapierre He had the appearance of a Mogul warrior: thick shock of curly hair, sideburns 1 which met the drooping curve of his moustache, a strong, stocky torso, long 2 muscular arms and slight bowed legs. Yet thirty-two-year-old Hasari Pal was 3 merely a peasant, one of the five hundred or so million inhabitants of India who 4 were looking to the goddess Earth for their livelihood. 5 6 He had built his two-roomed hut with mud walls and a thatched roof; it was a 7 short distance away from the village of Bankuli, West Bengal, a state in northeast 8 India large than Scotland and five times as populated as Greater London. His 9 wife, Aloka, was a young woman with a clear complexion and the look of an 10 angel. The wing of her nose was pierced with a gold ring and her ankles were 11 ornamented with bangles that jangled as she walked. She had given him three 12 children. The eldest, twelve-year-old Amrita, had inherits her father’s almond 13 eyes and her mother’s peach skin. Ten-year-old Manooj and six-year-old Shambu 14 were two sturdy boys with black tousled hair who would far rather chase lizards 15 around the pond than guide the buffalo into the family rice field. In the peasant’s 16
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