The passage contains 10 errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum
of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should
proofread the passage and correct it in the following way :
For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write
the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing
word with a "∧" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank
provided at the end of the line. For an unnecessary word,
cross the unnecessary work with a slash "—" and put the word in
the blank provided at the end of the line. The grammatical
words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the
most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical
words. A rough and ready difference which may seem the most
obvious is that grammatical words have "less
1 ______
meaning", but in fact some grammarians have called
2
______ them "empty" words as opposed in the "full"
words
3 ______ of
vocabulary. But this is a rather misled way of
4
______ expressing the distinction. Although a word like the
is not the name of something as man is, it is very far away
from being meaningless;
5 ______ there is a sharp difference in meaning
between "man is vile" and "the man is vile", yet the is the
single vehicle of this
6 ______ difference in
meaning. Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among
themselves as the amount
7
______ of meaning they have even in the lexical sense.
Another name for the grammatical words has been "little words."
But size is by no mean a 8
______ good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical
words of English, when we consider that we have lexical words
as go,
9 ______ man, say,
car. Apart from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in
what some people say: we certainly do create a great number of
10 ______ obscurity
when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of
Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper
headlines.