PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

How does velcro work?
Read the explanation.
Editing skills
Velcro are a handy fastener you will have seen
on shoes clothes and other everday objects. you
needs two different strips of velcro to make it work.
One of the strips have tiny nylon or polyester hooks all
over it. The other strip is coverred in nylon loops,
although it feel furry to touch. when the two strips are
pressed together the hooks grabs the loops so
the strips are held firmly. the clevver thing
about velcro are that it can be pulled apart and
rejoined thousands of times over. the inventer
of velcro got the idea from trying to pull prikles
out of his dogs furr
1 Punctuation
(a) Add the 4 missing capital letters,
2 commas, 1 apostrophe to show
possession and 1 exclamation mark.
2 Grammar
In any sentence, the subject and the verb
have to agree in person and in number; for
example, ‘He pulls’ but ‘They pull’.
(a) Six verbs in the text do not agree with their
subjects. Write the correct form of each
verb in the space at the end of the line.
Adjectives are words that describe nouns; for
example, red car, juicy apple.
(b) (i) Circle 3 adjectives in the text.
(ii) List at least 3 adjectives you can think
of that describe velcro.
4 Vocabulary
Antonyms are words with opposite meanings.
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(a) Write an antonym for each.
(i) different
(ii) apart
(iii) covered
(iv) press
Synonyms are words with similar meanings.
(b) Write a synonym for each verb.
(i) grab
3 Spelling
(ii) separate
(a) Write the correct spelling of 6 misspelt
words in the space at the end of each
line.
(iii) cover
(iv) work
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