PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
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Trees cross railway line<br />
Read this recount.<br />
<strong>Editing</strong> skills<br />
people watched in disbelief yesterday as (two/too/to) trees which had been major<br />
l<strong>and</strong>marks in (their/there) small town, came crashing down on to the railway line<br />
just after 3p.m., an ear-splitting thunderclap sounded <strong>and</strong> lightning struck the larger<br />
tree a huge fissure appeared in the body of the tree <strong>and</strong> it collapsed as it fell, it<br />
(brought/bought) down the second tree, already weekened by the day’s barrage of<br />
nature’s anger it was a miracle that no-one was injured the debris from both trees<br />
was scattered across the platforms <strong>and</strong> the town sqare<br />
as if satisfied with its work, nature comm<strong>and</strong>ed the wind <strong>and</strong> rain<br />
to carm, <strong>and</strong> the thunder <strong>and</strong> lightning to cease even the sun,<br />
(witch/which) had been hiding all afternoon behind thick storm<br />
clouds, was tempted to peep (threw/through) <strong>and</strong> shed<br />
more lite on the devastation<br />
1 Punctuation<br />
(a) Mark in the 8 capital letters <strong>and</strong> 8 full<br />
stops.<br />
2 Grammar<br />
Prepositions are positional words placed<br />
before nouns <strong>and</strong> pronouns to indicate their<br />
relation to other words; for example, ‘Put it on<br />
the table’, ‘The dog is under the chair’.<br />
(a) Write in the missing prepositions from<br />
the text.<br />
(i) l<strong>and</strong>marks<br />
their town<br />
(b) Write the correct spelling of the 4<br />
misspelt words.<br />
4 Vocabulary<br />
(a) Find a word from the text to match each<br />
definition.<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
(i) to order or direct<br />
(ii) satisfied<br />
(iii) scattered<br />
(iv) the body<br />
(v) weakened<br />
barrage<br />
(vi) hiding all afternoon<br />
clouds<br />
its work<br />
the platforms<br />
the tree<br />
the day’s<br />
(ii) an overwhelming attack<br />
(iii) rubbish left when something is<br />
destroyed<br />
(iv) to fall apart suddenly<br />
3 Spelling<br />
(a) Circle the correct word in each bracket.<br />
(v) a crack; a split<br />
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