Name:
Date:
How Dry Can a Desert Get?
The paragraph below tells about a special place or event. Can you find and mark ten errors in the
paragraph? You might look for errors of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar.
Deserts can be dry place but no desert is as dry as the Atacama Desert in
northern chile. Parts of this desert will not sea a single drop of rain this year. At
one time, Arica the largest city in northern Chile did not see rain four 14 years.
As a matter of fact, some parts of this desert have not seen rain in 400 year! Did
you have an idea that any place on earth could be that dry.
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Name:
Date:
How Dry Can a Desert Get?
The paragraph below tells about a special place or event. Can you find and mark ten errors in the
paragraph? You might look for errors of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar.
Deserts can be dry place but no desert is as dry as the Atacama Desert in
northern chile. Parts of this desert will not sea a single drop of rain this year. At
one time, Arica the largest city in northern Chile did not see rain four 14 years.
As a matter of fact, some parts of this desert have not seen rain in 400 year! Did
you have an idea that any place on earth could be that dry.
© 2004 by Education World®. Education World grants users permission to reproduce this work sheet for educational purposes only.