Name: __________________________________________
Date: __________________________________________
Period: ______
#:_____
SECTION: Warm-ups
PROOFREADING EXERCISES 1-10
Directions:
#1
1) Write the date and fill in the number of errors.
2) Find the errors. (Check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation!)
3) Correct the errors! Use your “Editing Marks” sheet to help you!
Date: _____________________ # of errors: ____
# I correctly found AND fixed: ___
The students found it very hard to believe that Mrs Snodwhumple had ever been a teenager
herself, in fact they found it hard to believe that she was human at all.
#2
Date: _____________________ # of errors: ____
# I correctly found AND fixed: ___
The neighbors supposebly had a pet dodo bird that excaped but I no that dodo birds are
extinct.
#3
Date: _____________________ # of errors: ____
# I correctly found AND fixed: ___
The star athlete turned out to be a alien. From the newly discovered planet gezbarkawada.
#4
Date: _____________________ # of errors: ____
# I correctly found AND fixed: ___
It is supposebly difficult to pat your head rub your stomach and chew gum at the same time
#5
Date: _____________________ # of errors: ____
# I correctly found AND fixed: ___
Who's idea was it too allow student to ride skateboards in the hall.
#6
Date: _____________________ # of errors: ____
# I correctly found AND fixed: ___
A even-toed ungulate which is better known as a camel keeps the sand out of it's eyes with 3
eyelids.
#7
Date: _____________________ # of errors: ____
# I correctly found AND fixed: ___
After Lee took a break to walk his Iguana and pet his Python he went back to work on his
marshmellow sculpture.
#8
Date: _____________________ # of errors: ____
# I correctly found AND fixed: ___
“Before you buy shoes for your pet millipede”, he said. "Consider the cost.
#9
Date: _____________________ # of errors: ____
# I correctly found AND fixed: ___
Mark had a hard time remembering things, he always came to school with a sticky note list
stuck in the middle of his fourhead
#10
Date: _____________________ # of errors: ____
# I correctly found AND fixed: ___
Oliver was upset this morning, because his little brother fed his homework to squeezy there
pet Boa Constrictor.