PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

The ‘Titanic’ should be left alone
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The ‘Titanic’ was a large luxurious ship that sank in 1912 taking 1513 people with it
The wreck will be found in 1985. Since that time, thouzands of artefacts have been
taken from the ‘Titanic’. Some people think this is rong They say the ‘Titanic’ is really a
graveyard and should be left alone.
I dont think that just anyone should be aloud to visit the shipwreck. But if sientists are
careful I cant see anything wrong with remooving artefacts from the ‘Titanic’ People
can then go to see them in museums. This is a good way to pay our respects to the
people who will die in the disaster. If the artefacts are left
underwater, they will eventualy perish and no-one will
ever see them I think thats a shame. The people
who died on the ‘Titanic’ must be remembed
Bringing the ships artefacts to the surfase is the
best way to do this.
1 Punctuation
(a) Find the 1 comma missing from a list,
2 grammatical commas, 5 full stops,
3 apostrophes for contractions and 1
apostrophe for possession.
2 Grammar
Verbs in the future tense describe what will
happen in the future. The word ‘will’ can be
used to show this; for example, ‘He will go’,
‘She will see’.
(a) Two of the verbs in the text have been
written in the future tense. Circle them and
write the correct verb tense above each.
3 Spelling
4 Vocabulary
(a) Use a thesaurus or dictionary to write
synonyms for these words from the text.
(i) perish
(ii) disaster
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Compound words are made up of two smaller
words; for example, ‘rainbow’, ‘twenty-one’.
(b) Write 4 compound words found in this
text.
(a) Write the correct spelling of the 8
misspelt words.
(c) Write 6 compound words (hyphenated or
unhyphenated) with the words ‘ship’ or
‘water’. Use a dictionary.
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