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.

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!

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.

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