PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

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‘disastrous!’ bye John chan is an older childrens
book that will describe all sorts of natural and
human-created disasters, from shipwrecks too
volcanoes. Any child with an intrest in science
and technology wood enjoy this book.
The text is easy to read and will contain lists of
little-known facts and quotes from reel eyewitnesses.
The photographs and illustrations are brite and
interesting but sometimes they are a bit two
violent four the target age group of the book. Chans
book also will leave out some of the more well-known
disasters, like the sincking of the ‘titanic’ and the black
Death. But the disasters he will include have been
well-researched and make facinating reading.
1 Punctuation
(a) Add 2 missing apostrophes for
possession and 4 missing capital letters.
Circle the 4 hyphenated words.
2 Grammar
Conjunctions are words that join single words
or groups of words to make a sentence
longer; for example, ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘because’.
(a) Write two conjunctions used in the text.
(b) Four of the verbs in this text are incorrect
because they are written in the future
tense (e.g. ‘He will write’). Write the
correct present tense of each of these
verbs in the space at the end of the line.
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3 Spelling
(a) Write the 10 misspelt words correctly in
the space at the end of the line.
To make the plural of some nouns, ‘es’ is
added. This includes most singular words that
end in ‘s’, ‘ss’, ‘sh’, ‘o’, ‘ch’, ‘x’ and ‘z’.
(b) Write two plural nouns from the text that
end in ‘es’. Write two more plural nouns
of your own that end in ‘es’.
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