PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

The old shed
Read the narrative.
Editing skills
Jack swunng open the door of the old shed
and stepped inside it slamed shut behind him. He
starred around with wide eyes.
In the middle of the room in the thic dust and
spider webs, stood a small woodden table. It was
set with polished silver plates and cutelry and a
single candle was burning with brightness in an
elaborate candlestick jack shivered with violence.
This was kreepy. And the damp musty smell was
making him feel queazy. He had to get out.
With swiftness he turned towards the door and
grabed at the handle.
Dont go. Come and eat’ wisppered a
voyce in his ear.
Jack screamed and with desperation rattled the handle.
Help! let me owt!
1 Punctuation
(a) Find the missing 3 capital letters, 2 full
stops, 4 commas and 1 apostrophe.
The actual words spoken by a person are
called direct speech. These begin and end
with quotation marks.
(b) Write the missing quotation marks from
the direct speech in the text.
2 Grammar
Adverbs are words that describe verbs.
They often end in ‘ly’; for example, ‘happily’,
‘slowly’.
(a) Look at the words in bold type in the text.
Replace each group of words with one
adverb with the same meaning. Write
each one in the space at the end of the
line.
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3 Spelling
(a) Write the misspelt words correctly in the
space at the end of the line.
4 Vocabulary
Compound words are made up of two smaller
words; for example, ‘rainbow’.
(a) Write 2 compound words used in the
text.
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