PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

Guard the treasure!
Read the procedure for playing a game.
Editing skills
You will need
• the children in yor class
• a roled-up newspaper
• a small box of coins
• a blindfold
1. Ask the children to sits in a circle on the floor.
2. choose one person to be the gard. he/She
should sit in the midle of the circle.
3. Blindfold the guard and giv him/her the
rolled-up newspaper. plase the box of coins in
frunt of him/her.
4. choose one person in the circle to tries to steal
the box without being taped by the guards
newspaper. if cort he/she must return to
his/her place. If he/she succeed he/she
becumes the new guard.
1 Punctuation
(a) Write the 4 missing capitals, 2 commas,
1 apostrophe to show possession and 1
colon for an offset list.
A hyphen (-) is used in some words to
connect smaller words; for example, ‘happygo-lucky’,
‘self-pity’, ‘blue-black’.
(b) The word ‘rolled-up’ in the text is
hyphenated. Use a dictionary to find
three more hyphenated words that
contain the word ‘roll’.
2 Grammar
In any sentence, the subject and the verb
have to agree in person and in number; for
example, ‘He sees’ but ‘They see’.
(a) Three verbs in the text do not agree with
their subjects. Write the correct form of
each verb in the space at the end of the
line where it is found.
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3 Spelling
(a) Write the correct spelling for the misspelt
words in the space at the end of each line.
You can add ‘s’ or ‘es’ to most words to make
them plurals.
(b) Write the plural form of each of these
words from the text.
(i) class
(ii) circle
(iii) box
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