PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

The Great Barrier Reef
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Punctuation
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings
• Capital letters for proper nouns
• Full stops
• Grammatical commas
Grammar
• Subject-verb agreement
• Prepositions
Spelling
• Confused words: they’re/their
• Misspelt words
Vocabulary
• Enrichment
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This description describes the physical characteristics and special features of the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the world. It is nearly two thousand
kilometres long and stretches along most of the north-eastern coastline of Australia.
Although the reef is so large, it is actually made of very small coral polyps and algae.
The hard part of the reef is made from the skeletons of these small creatures.
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1. Missing punctuation is in bold type.
2. (a) Verbs are underlined.
stretch – stretches (line 2), are – is (line 3), is – are (line 5)
(b) (i) were (ii) want (iii) is (iv) has
(c) (i) in (ii) along (iii) from
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.
Coral polyps are not, as they appear, members
of the plant family, but are really small
animals that have poisonous tentacles. These
animals feed on plankton and when they die
their skeletons remain.
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world, Although, skeletons, animals, plankton, their, skeletons
4. (a) largest – most extensive, long – in length, large – vast, very small – tiny, hard – solid,
poisonous – venomous, feed – feast
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