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Editing & Proofreading
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- 1.
Find the spelling error: 'The childern played in the park.'
Answer: ____________________________________
- 2.
Find the error: 'She dont like vegetables.'
(a) She(b) dont(c) like(d) vegetables
- 3.
What is wrong with: 'the boy runned to school.'?
- 4.
Find the punctuation error: 'Where is my book'
(a) No error(b) Missing question mark(c) Missing full stop(d) Missing comma
- 5.
Find the error: 'I have two sisteres.'
Answer: ____________________________________
- 6.
What is wrong with: 'Him and me went to the shop.'?
(a) Nothing is wrong(b) 'Him' should be 'He' and 'me' should be 'I'(c) Only 'Him' should change(d) Only 'me' should change
- 7.
Find the error: 'Their going to the park tommorow.'
- 8.
Which sentence has no errors?
(a) She bringed her lunch.(b) The dogs is barking.(c) I have already finished my work.(d) He don't know the answer.
- 9.
Find the error: 'The teacher gave the books to Ali and I.'
(a) teacher(b) gave(c) Ali(d) I (should be 'me')
- 10.
Find the spelling error: 'It was a beautifull day.'
Answer: ____________________________________
- 11.
What is wrong with: 'I could of done better.'?
(a) 'could' is wrong(b) 'of' should be 'have'(c) 'done' is wrong(d) 'better' is wrong
- 12.
Find and correct the error: 'Each of the students have their own desk.'
Answer: ____________________________________
- 13.
Which sentence has a comma splice error?
(a) I like apples, and I like oranges.(b) I like apples, I like oranges.(c) I like apples. I like oranges.(d) I like both apples and oranges.
- 14.
Find the error: 'She is more smarter than her brother.'
Answer: ____________________________________
- 15.
Find the error: 'The dog chased it's tail.'
(a) dog(b) chased(c) it's (should be 'its')(d) tail
- 16.
Find two errors: 'Me and my freind went to the libary.'
- 17.
Which sentence correctly uses 'their', 'there', 'they're'?
(a) Their going to there house.(b) They're going to their house.(c) There going to they're house.(d) Their going to they're house.
- 18.
Find the error: 'Neither Tom or Jerry was at school.'
Answer: ____________________________________
- 19.
What is wrong with: 'The team are playing good today.'?
(a) 'are' should be 'is'(b) 'good' should be 'well'(c) Both A and B(d) Nothing is wrong
- 20.
Proofread and rewrite correctly: 'yesterday me and tom goed to the libary we readed many book'
Answer key — P4 English: Editing & Proofreading
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- 1.childern should be children
- 2.(b) dont
- 3.runned should be ran, and 'the' should be 'The'
- 4.(b) Missing question mark
- 5.sisteres should be sisters
- 6.(b) 'Him' should be 'He' and 'me' should be 'I'
- 7.Their should be They're, tommorow should be tomorrow
- 8.(c) I have already finished my work.
- 9.(d) I (should be 'me')
- 10.beautifull should be beautiful
- 11.(b) 'of' should be 'have'
- 12.have should be has
- 13.(b) I like apples, I like oranges.
- 14.more smarter should be smarter
- 15.(c) it's (should be 'its')
- 16.Me should be My friend and I; freind should be friend; libary should be library
- 17.(b) They're going to their house.
- 18.or should be nor
- 19.(c) Both A and B
- 20.Yesterday, Tom and I went to the library. We read many books.
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