PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

Art thief arrest
Read the newspaper report.
Editing skills
Art theif Winston Rose has finaly been arrested after having been chased
by the worlds police for more than 10 years. The details of him
amazing excapes can be found in william Greens book, artful dodging.
The infamous criminal has stolen priceles paintings from musuems and
art galleries in 12 countries. Roses method was to cut a painting out of
their frame and replace it with a picture of a red rose.
rose is nown as an expert at avoiding security alarms, but yesterday
he set won off as she entered the Franklin Gallery in london.
I think Rose is as suprised as we are about the alarm,
said a pollice spokesperson yesterday. ‘Him is now in custody but is
not saying nothing about what he has done with all the stollen art.
1 Punctuation
(a) Write the 4 missing capital letters and 3
apostrophes to show possession.
Quotation marks show what a person
is saying.
(b) Add the quotation marks missing from
the text.
2 Grammar
Verbs written in the past tense show what has
already happened; for example, ‘He went
to the shops’, ‘Michael wrote a story’, ‘She
washed the dishes’.
(a) Write four past tense verbs from the text.
Pronouns are words that replace nouns; for
example, ‘I’, ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘him’, ‘it’, ‘her’,
‘them’, ‘my’.
(b) Circle the incorrect pronouns used in the
text. Above each, write the pronoun that
should have been used.
3 Spelling
(a) Write the correct spelling of the 10
misspelt words.
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4 Writing
A double negative statement incorrectly uses
two negative words; for example, ‘I haven’t
got no more,’ should be ‘I haven’t any more’
or ‘I have no more’.
(a) Underline the line in the text containing a
double negative. Write it correctly.
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