Proofreading

Which of these sentences is correct?

• last year i went to my brothers wedding in india

• Last yeer I went to my brother's weeding in India.

• Last year I went to my brother's wedding in India.

• Last year I go to my brother's wedding in India.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.3.1E

Which of these sentences is correct?

• The food in a restaurant was so delicious!

• The food in the resturant was so delicius!

• the food in the restaurant was so delicious

• The food in the restaurant was so delicious!

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

Which of these sentences is correct?

• The journey was so exhausting!

• The journey was so exhausted!

• the journey was so exhausting

• The jurney was so exhusted.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.1.1F

It is easy to leave out silent letters in words because you don't hear them clearly. Which of these words contains silent letters?

• Public
• Station
• Receipt
• Clothing

Homophones often cause problems for writers. Which of these pairs of words are NOT homophones?

• Write/right
• Pair/pear
• Start/begin
• Here/hear

What is the name for an ending such as -ly or -ing that can be added to a root word?

• Suffix
• Vowel
• Base
• Verb

Only people with spelling problems need to proofread their work

• True
• False

Which of these should you look for when proofreading?

• Missing words
• Spelling errors
• Capital letters in the wrong place
• All of these

"I'm no good at spotting my own mistakes, so what can I do?"

• Get a freind to check through your work
• Use a dictionary or a spell and grammar check on a computer
• Read your writing out loud to yourself
• Use all of the above methods to check your writing

Which of these mistakes will a computers spell checker not find?

• A missing letter in a word
• Letters the wrong way round
• Using 'where' when you should have written 'wear'
• Leaving a vowel out of a word