Question

The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number.
Error Correction:

	Incorrect	Correct
Tsunami is a series in waves
generated in a body from water
through an impulsive disturbance
causing damage to property or loss of life

Answer 1

Hint: To perform error correction we must be familiar with all grammar concepts like tenses, prepositions, and conjunctions and so on. In the given question look out for incorrect prepositions and subject-verb agreements.

Complete answer:
Keep in mind that most of the errors here are in the written prepositions. We will substitute or introduce a conjunction for error correction and 'prepositions' is a term that indicates the relationship between other terms in a statement. Within a sentence, it connects either a noun, or a noun phrase, or even a pronoun to another term.

In the first part; Tsunami is a series in waves – replace the preposition ‘in’ and write ‘of’ in place of it, since the series is not within waves, but they are in the form of waves.
Then the next part; generated in a body from water – replace the preposition ‘from’ and write ‘of’ instead, because the common phrase is ‘body of water’.
Next part; through an impulsive disturbance – replace ‘through’ to ‘by’, since the tsunami is caused by that impulsive disturbance, not ‘through’ it.
Finally; causing damage to property or loss of life – replace ‘or’ with ‘and’, since both damage and loss takes place.

Final answer after Error Correction is:

	Incorrect	Correct
Tsunami is a series in waves	a) in	a) Of
generated in a body from water	b) from	b) of
through an impulsive disturbance	c) through	c) by
causing damage to property or loss of life	d) or	d) and

Note: We were given short sentences here, but when we get longer sentences it will not be this easy to spot out the errors. So, when we get longer sentences, try to break them into shorter ones, either by meaning or with the help of the given commas (if a passage is given).