PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

The Aquada
Read the description.
Editing skills
would you like to own a car thats allso a boat you
can by one now – but you will need to be rich, as
there very expensive
The aquada is a slick-looking sports car that can seet
three people. It has all the normal car kontrols, like a
speedometer and a fuel gage. It doesnt have any
doors—you have to careful climb in! this is so the
car is complete watertight.
if you want to go onto warter, all you do is press a
button. When the car senses its floating, it quick
retracts the wheals and lights up the navigation lights
that suround the numberplate. the car is now a
jet-powered boat It can do allmost 50
kilomeetres per hour at top speed.
1 Punctuation
(a) Write the missing 6 capital letters, 1
question mark, 3 apostrophes and 2
exclamation marks needed for emphasis.
A hyphen (-) is used in some words to
connect smaller words; for example, ‘happygo-lucky’,
‘self-pity’, ‘able-bodied’.
(b) (i) The word ‘jet-powered’ is one of the
hyphenated compound words in the
text. Underline the other.
(ii) Find three hyphenated words starting
with ‘j’ in a dictionary.
2 Grammar
Adverbs are words that describe verbs. They
often end in ‘ly’; for example, ‘happily’, ‘quickly’.
(a) Write 3 adverbs that are missing the ‘ly’
ending, in the space at the end of the line.
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3 Spelling
(a) Write the correct spelling for the misspelt
words in the space at the end of the line.
4 Vocabulary
Compound words are made up of two smaller
words; for example, ‘rainbow’.
(a) Circle the compound words in the text.
(b) Write 2 which are unhyphenated.
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