PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

The Wallace Walking Club
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Editing skills
the Wallace Walking Club is a recent addishun to the
Wallace Primary School healthy lifestile campaign
the club promotes walking as a ideal way two exercise
and enjoy the benifits of regular activity both staff and
pupils our regular participants
the club meats each day after lunch on the school field
a variety of routes each lasting 20 minites are enjoyed by
the regular warkers
the too major benefits to members are improved health
and the development of new relationships betwean
pupils and staff and pupils off different year groups
the popularity of the club has developed threwout the
term and is expected to continue for meny more years
1 Punctuation
(a) The report needs 7 capital letters, 7 full
stops and 3 commas.
2 Grammar
(a) Find the present tense verbs used to
complete these sentences and change
them to the past tense.
(i) The club p walking for
exercise.
(ii) The club m daily.
(b) Use suitable conjunctions to join these
sentences.
(i) I had to walk to school
Mum’s car wouldn’t start.
(ii)
the shop opened I
bought some milk.
(iii) The train slowed down
I watched it approaching the station.
3 Spelling
(a) Underline the spelling mistake on each
line of text and write the correction at the
end of the line.
Viewing Sample
The letters ‘tion’ give the sound ‘shun’ as in
the word ‘communication’.
(b) Complete the following words by
adding ‘tion’.
(i) promo
(ii) vaca
(iii) na
(iv) educa
(v) separa
(vi) sta
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