PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

Roald Dahl
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Editing skills
Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990
Roald Dahl was a well-loved children’s aufor. He were born in wales in 1916,
the sun of norwegian parrents. After he finished his schooling in england, he
began werk for the Shell Oil Company and were posted to africa a few years
later. Wen World War II broke out, he enlisted as a fighter pilot in the RAF. In
1942, he mooved to the USA and began to rite stories.
dahl’s children’s books include
• charlie and the choclate factory,
• the BFG, and
• james and the giant peach.
1 Punctuation
(a) Add brackets to the title.
(b) Write 8 missing capital letters and the
colon missing from the offset list.
A hyphen (-) is used in some compound
words to connect smaller words together; for
example, ‘happy-go-lucky’, ‘self-pity’.
(c) The word ‘well-loved’ in this text uses
a hyphen. Use a dictionary to find three
other words beginning with ‘well’ that
also use a hyphen.
2 Grammar
In any sentence, the subject and the verb
have to agree in person and in number; for
example, ‘He sees’ but ‘They see’.
(a) Two verbs in the text do not agree with
their subjects. Write the correct form of
each verb above the text.
3 Spelling
(a) Write the correct spelling of the 8 words
which are misspelt.
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4 Vocabulary
(a) Circle 3 shortened forms used in the text.
Write what each stands for.
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(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(b) Write the shortened form for:
(i) professor
(ii) acquired immune
deficiency syndrome
(iii) school
(iv) self-contained underwater
breathing apparatus