PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

The frilled lizard
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the frilled lizard is famous for its ferocious apearance it is
spectacular to watch as it raises the frills that suround its
neck these famous frills are normaly folded away
when the frilled lizard is suprised or frightened it raises its
frills in an agresive display to scare off predators as the
frills are razed the lizard also opens its mouth very wide
and emmitts a hissing sound adding to the threatening
and dramatic dissplay
the frilled lizard which grows up to one meter long is
found in the northern parts of australia and dryer regions
of new guinea it is clased as an ‘arboreal’ animal because
it is capable of climming trees, from where it can spot its food,
which is mainly grashopers and other small insects
1 Punctuation
(a) Find the 10 missing capital
letters, 7 full stops and 5
commas.
2 Grammar
While apostrophes are normally used
to show possession, there are some
words which mean ‘belonging to’ that
may cause confusion. There is no need
to use an apostrophe in these words; for
example, ‘his’, ‘theirs’.
(a) Write the possessive pronouns for:
(i) belonging to you
(ii) belonging to him
(iii) belonging to her
(iv) belonging to it
(v) belonging to us
(vi) belonging to them
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(b) Which possessive pronoun has
been used 5 times in the text?
(c) Write an adjective from the text
to match each noun below.
noun
adjective
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(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
aggression
drama
spectacle
threat
ferocity
arbor
3 Spelling
(a) There is a spelling mistake in each line of
the text. Underline the error and write the
correction in the space at the end of the line.