PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

Plant more trees!
Read the discussion text.
Editing skills
We need to plant moor trees to prevent the levels of carbon dioxide in
the air from rising which would increase the greenhouse affect and
lead to global worming
during the proccess of photosynthesis the trees use up carbon
dioxide which was a waste product of the human breathing process
They then release oxygen which humans needed for breathing.
we need to plant more trees because their root systerns hold
together fertile toppsoil
When trees are cut down in such great quantities the soil are more
vulnerable to erosion bye wind and water plants are unable to
thrive and the land is left useluss.
we needs to plant more trees to hold the topsoil together so that
crops needed for glowbull consumption will not be in short supply
we need too plant more trees!
1 Punctuation
(a) Find the 5 missing capital letters, 5 full
stops and 5 commas.
2 Grammar
The tense of a verb must match the time
the action occurred. This text is describing a
situation that is happening right now, so the
verbs are in the present tense.
(a) Find the 2 verbs (lines 5 and 6) which
are in the incorrect tense. Write the
correction at the end of each line.
3 Spelling
(a) Highlight the mistakes in the text and write
the correction at the end of each line.
4 Vocabulary
Viewing Sample
(a) Match these words and definitions.
vulnerable erosion thrive consumption
(i) wearing away by wind or water
Verb endings must agree with the person or
people doing the action.
(b) Find the 2 verbs (lines 9 and 12) which
disagree with their subject. Write the
correction at the end of each line.
(ii) to grow well
(iii) open to attack
(iv) using up of goods or services
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