PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

The marine turtle
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the turtle is a reptile a cold-blooded animal that breathes air threw its lungs the main
feature of the turtle is its hard shell, which can be up to a meter in lenth
their are seven types of marine turtle most of them living in the warm tropical oceans
where they feed on algae and sea grasses
turtles spend most of their time in the water but the female crawls on to the beach
to lay her rubbery-shelled eggs she digs a hole in the sand and lays as many as
two hundred eggs the eggs are covered with sand for protection from the son and
preditors after about ate weeks they are ready to hatch
most young turtles fail to reach the ocean as the trip across the open sand is a
dangerous one yung turtles are easy pray for birds and other animals
1 Punctuation
(a) Write in 9 capital letters, 9 full stops and
3 grammatical commas.
A hyphen (-) is used in some words to
connect smaller words; for example, ‘do-ityourself’,
‘weight-lifter’ and ‘well-presented’.
(b) Circle the 2 hyphenated words in the text.
(c) Make hyphenated words from the list
below to match each definition.
mini hearted sea service
dog half self mart
2 Grammar
Conjunctions are words that join single words
or groups of words to make a sentence
longer.
(a) Write 3 conjunctions used in the text.
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(i) customers serve themselves
(ii) small supermarket
3 Spelling
(a) Highlight the 9 misspelt words in the
report, then write the correct spellings
below.
(iii) showing little enthusiasm
(iv) experienced sailor
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