PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

Birthday parties
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Editing skills
Have you ever wondered why we celebrates
birthdays with partys
Long ago in Europe people thought that evil spirrits
were attrackted to people on their birthdays. To
protect them friends and family would gathers
to bring their good wishs and gifts for the birthday
person. At first, only kings celebrated there birthdays,
but soon people began too celebrate childrens
birthdays to.
Manny childrens birthday parties include games.
A lot of theese games involve the unknown, such as
‘Pin the tail on the donkey’ or ‘Musical chaires’.
Traditionally they symbolises the unknown in the new
year of life that lyse ahead for the birthday child.
1 Punctuation
(a) Find 3 missing commas,
1 question mark and 2
apostrophes.
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. Circle
them and write the
correct form of each
verb in the space at
the end of the line.
4 Vocabulary
(a) Write an antonym (a word with the
opposite meaning) for these words from
the text.
(i) evil
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(ii) protect
5 Writing
The first paragraph states what the report
is about.
(a) Write a question answered by paragraphs
2 and 3.
Paragraph 2.
3 Spelling
Paragraph 3
(a) Write the misspelt words correctly in the
space at the end of the line.
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