Practical English: Learning and Teaching EPP, IIT Kanpur
Assignment 10
Please watch Lesson 10 before attempting this assignment.
Rewrite the passage given below using capitalization and punctuation marks
appropriately. Also supply suitable articles wherever necessary.
untimely publication of obituaries is not as rare as one may anticipate of course one must be
somewhat reputed in his sphere of work to warrant obituary at all list of people who had
hilarious but unenviable fortune of reading their own obituaries runs long including ernest
hemingway samuel taylor coleridge pope john paul 2 fidel castro nelson mandela and many
more while headlines may have looked quite plausible information in them was decidedly not
mostly such untimely obituaries brought on good natured laughter and later whole hearted
apology from offender occasionally such news would be devastating as in case of jamaican
politician marcus garvey as he suffered fatal cardiac arrest while reading obituary it was alleged
that he could not come to terms with what people really thought about him but most celebrated
reaction came from none other than mark twain when he said report of my death is slightly
exaggerated
