PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

Eyewitness account
Read the recount.
Editing skills
I was standing calm at the traffic lights at St Lucys
Square when me heard the sound of running footsteps
a few metres behind I. I turned to see a young man
vicious snatch an elderly womans handbag from
under her arm Then it pushed her over and kept
runing. I raced over to the woman who was
struggling to her feet. As their was no-one else in
sight I yelled out for help and was releived to see a
police officer round the corner. We careful
helped the woman into a nearby shop were the
owner kindly gave him a glass of water She recovered
quick and helped me to give a description of the
man hoo had robbed her
1 Punctuation
(a) Find the 2 missing commas, 3 full stops
and 2 apostrophes to show possession.
2 Grammar
Pronouns are words that replace nouns; for
example, ‘I’, ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘him’, ‘it’.
(a) Circle the incorrect pronouns used in the
text. Write the correct pronouns in the
space at the end of the line.
Adverbs are words that describe verbs.
They often end in ‘ly’; for example, ‘happily’,
‘slowly’.
(b) Four words from the text are missing
the ‘ly’ ending that makes them adverbs.
Write each one correctly in the space at
the end of the line.
Prepositions are positional words placed
before nouns and pronouns to indicate their
relation to other words; for example; ‘He was
at the traffic lights.’
(c) Write the missing prepositions from the
text.
Viewing Sample
(i) a description
(ii) the bag
3 Spelling
her arm
the man
(a) Write the correct spelling for the misspelt
words in the space at the end of the line.
4 Vocabulary
(a) Write a synonym for each of these words
from the text.
(i) robbed
(ii) pushed
(iii) raced
(iv) yelled
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