Grover Cleveland
The paragraph below tells about a special person born in March. Can you find and mark ten errors in the paragraph?
You might look for errors of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar.
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Grover Cleveland
The paragraph below tells about a special person born in March. Can you find and mark ten errors in the paragraph?
You might look for errors of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar.
Did you know there were only one U.S president to ever serve two non-consecutive terms
th
Grover
Cleveland
United
22nd 1910,
and 24William
president.
He was
born
on March
On
a coool
spring was
day the
in April
offStates
the year
Howard
Taft
become
the 18
1837, and lived in New York and new Jersey. As a kid, Grover Cleveland did not spend a
first
UStime
president
to start
the baseball
by throwing
the first
lot of
in school.
He taught
himself season
to read and
write and our
worked
verypithc.
hard. He had
come
Eventually,
to Leaugre
he became
Park in
a lawyer.
Washington,
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D.C. atosuccessful
sea the Senators
lawyour play
for years,
the A’s.
Grover
His
Cleveland
rancarried
for president.
Hesince.
become
president
in 1884,
lost
in 1888,
and became
tradition
has
on every
President
Obama
will
starts
the 2011
base ball
president again on 1892. He is best known for being the only president to get married
while in office and for having a candy bar, the Baby Ruth, named for his dotter.
© 2015 by Education World®. Education World grants users permission to reproduce this worksheet for educational purposes only.