PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
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Glow-worm grotto<br />
Read the description.<br />
<strong>Editing</strong> skills<br />
The glow-worm groto in the Te Ana-au caves in the<br />
South Isl<strong>and</strong> of new zeal<strong>and</strong> is well werth visiting.<br />
After you walk with care into the caves, you are<br />
aksed to get into a small boat to enter the grotto<br />
when you get there, it is absolutely quite <strong>and</strong><br />
pitch-black. The only light you can sees is from the<br />
glow-worms, which is dotted above you. They look<br />
like tiny blue stars. It feels eerie to be in silence gliding<br />
under them with no other lite or sound you can’t<br />
evin see your own h<strong>and</strong> in front of your face by the<br />
time you leaves the grotto, you feel disoriented—it is<br />
dificult to say which way is up or down<br />
1 Punctuation<br />
(a) Find the 5 missing capital letters, 3 full<br />
stops <strong>and</strong> 1 exclamation mark.<br />
A hyphen (-) is used in some compound<br />
words to connect smaller words together; for<br />
example, happy-go-lucky, self-pity.<br />
(b) Write two hyphenated compound words<br />
used in this text.<br />
In any sentence, the subject <strong>and</strong> the verb<br />
have to agree in person <strong>and</strong> in number; for<br />
example, ‘He sees’ but ‘They see’.<br />
(b) Three verbs in the text do not agree with<br />
their subjects. Write the correct form of<br />
each verb in the space at the end of the line.<br />
Prepositions are positional words placed<br />
before nouns <strong>and</strong> pronouns to indicate their<br />
relation to other words; for example, ‘caves in<br />
the South Isl<strong>and</strong>’.<br />
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(c) Underline the prepositions in each<br />
sentence.<br />
(i) You can walk into the caves.<br />
(ii) The light is from the glow-worms.<br />
(iii) We were gliding under them.<br />
2 Grammar<br />
Adverbs are words that describe verbs; for<br />
example, ‘happily’, ‘slowly’, ‘often’.<br />
(a) Look at the words in bold type in the text.<br />
Replace each group of words with one<br />
adverb with the same meaning <strong>and</strong> write<br />
it in the space at the end of the line.<br />
(iv) The grotto is in the caves.<br />
(v) The glow-worms are dotted above you.<br />
(vi) They enjoyed their visit to the caves.<br />
3 Spelling<br />
(a) Write the correct spelling for the misspelt<br />
words in the space at the end of the line.<br />
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