PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

Annie the witch
Read this narrative.
Editing skills
Youre crazy, mike Old annies a witch—everyone knows that
Rubbish, ian My mum and dad say shes just a lonley old lady.
Im telling you shes a witch
ian shook his head, his eyes behind the thick lenses opened
wide and round. He dropped his voice to a wisper.
And she killed her husband—she served him poisned cookies and milk. Homemade
choc-chip cookies. And you want to go there by yourself—youre a nutcase
But nothing could shake mike.
Im going to weed her garden for her—and shes going to pay me cash. And when I
have that cash, Ill have saved enugh for a new engine for my model aeroplane. And if
youre very lucky, I might let you play with it sometimes.
Yeah, if you’re alive, you mean …
1 Punctuation
Speech marks are put at the beginning and
end of what has been spoken.
(a) There are 6 separate speeches in the
text. Add the missing speech marks.
(b) Write in 5 missing exclamation marks
where the sentence suggests strong
feelings.
(c) Find 5 capital letters needed for proper
nouns.
A hyphen (-) is used in some compound
words to connect smaller words; for example,
choc-chip.
(d) Use a dictionary to find three other words
associated with food that also use a
hyphen.
(f) Write the 5 different contractions used in
the text in full below.
2 Spelling
Viewing Sample
(a) Underline 4 spelling mistakes in the text
and write them correctly below.
3 Grammar
(a) Indicate the tense of these verbs from
the text by writing ‘past’, ‘future’ or
‘present’ after each.
Apostrophes are used in grammatical contractions.
They show that letters have been left out.
(e) In the text, add the missing apostrophes
in 11 contractions.
(i) knows
(ii) shook
(iii) dropped
(iv) am going to weed
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