Use of English/Error Spotting

Das Error Spotting ist eine neue Aufgabenform. Hier werden Sätze untersucht, ob sie richtig sind.

Entweder muss man falsche Wörter verbesssern oder den Satz durch das Streichen eines falschen Wortes in korrektes Englisch bringen.

Meist sind es kleine Funktionswörter, deren Streichen dem Satz dann Sinn und Richtigkeit geben.

SPELLING CHECKERS
  Eye have a spelling chequer
  It came with my pea sea
   It plainly marques for my revue
   Miss steaks eye kin knot seo.
  
  Eye strike a key and type a word
  And weight four it to say
   Weather eye am wrong oar write
   It shows me strait a weigh.
  
  As soon as a mist ache is maid
  It nose bee fore two long
   And eye can put the error rite
     Its rare leave ever wrong.

  Eye have run this poem threw it
  I am shore your pleased to no
  Its letter perfect all the weigh
  My chequer tolled me sew.

"Owed to a Spelling Checker" by Jerrold H. Zar

Interactive Exercises

Pirate Legends

Read the short text below and look carefully at each line. Some of them are correct, but five of them have a word which should not be there.

If a line is correct, please write ok. If a line has a word which should not be there, please write the word in the space provided. There are two examples at the beginning.

Legend n° 1: Wooden Legs

0         ok                  The legend of wooden legs probably started from the book "Treasure Island",
0        that                 although that in the story, the character Long John Silver does not
1 ok() use a wooden leg but crutches.
2 bad() In real life, if a pirate was bad injured in the leg, amputation was often the
3 ok() only option to save him. If the pirate crew were clever, they would call the
4 who() ship's cook to cut the leg off, because doctors who were uncommon
5 and() aboard pirate ships. However, such brutal operations were rarely and suc-
6 ok() cessful. If the pirate didn't die during the operation, a substitute leg would
7 one() later be necessary. This new leg was usually made of any one material
8 an() available aboard the ship, like a piece of wood, for an example.

The Fountain of Youth

Read the short text below and look carefully at each line. Some of them are correct, but five of them have a word which should not be there.

If a line is correct, please write ok. If a line has a word which should not be there, please write the word in the space provided. There are two examples at the beginning.

0         ok                  Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth,
0        an                 only to discover that an Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.
1 has() Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) has crosses a paths with a woman from his past (Cruz),
2 would() and he's not sure if it's love -- or if she's would a ruthless con artist
3 ok() who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.
4 of() When she forces him aboard of the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the
5 is() formidable pirate is Blackbeard (McShane), Jack finds himself on an unexpected
6 of() adventure in which he doesn't know of who to fear more:
7 ok() Blackbeard or the woman from his past.

Use of English

• Vocabulary
  1. Synonyms and Opposites
  2. Definitions
  3. Word Families
• Structures
  1. Error Spotting
  2. Mixed Grammar
  3. Keyword Transformation

Weblinks

• wiziq.com