PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

Matthew’s story
Read the autobiography.
Editing skills
My life the story of Matthew Marsh
I was born in London in 1967. My familys main intrest
was sport and my parents with activeness
enckouraged me to play team sports from an
urly age. But I really didn’t enjoy playing sport. I
preffered to play my violin.
When I left school, I found a job as a bakers asistent
and kept practising my violin. One day I herd that
a new music group was looking for a voilinist. I rang
and with nervousness auditioned for the
groups lead singger the next day. To my delight I got in.
I ennjoyed the bands music and spent the next
few years with happiness playing electric violin. When
the band broke up in 1997 I started to right my own
pop music. My songs have been perfformmed by
some of the worlds most famus singers. I now live in
Los Angeles where I werk in my home studio.
1 Punctuation
(a) Find the 3 missing commas and 5
apostrophes to show possession.
Correct the title by adding the
missing colon.
2 Grammar
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Adjectives are words that
describe nouns; for example,
red car, juicy apple.
(b) Write 3 adjectives you can
find in the text.
Adverbs are words that describe verbs.
They often end in ‘ly’; for example,
‘happily’, ‘slowly’.
(a) Look at the words in bold print 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.
3 Spelling
(a) Write the misspelt words correctly in the
space at the end of the line.
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