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Form 2 proofreading exercise 1
Lee, Moira; Daniels, Ben. Longman Express Grammar Book 2A. 2nd Edn. Hong Kong: Longman. p. 33
Read the following e-mail message. There is one mistake in each numbered line. Correct the
mistakes.
Underline a word that is incorrect and write the correct word above it.
Mark the position of a missing word with a ‘Λ’ and write the missing word above it.
Hi Paula
1. I had a great time tonight. Our school had a inter-class drama competition.
2. The theme of the night was ‘Our school’. We choose this theme because this
3. year is your school’s 50th anniversary.
4. All the classes took part in the competition. Did our class win some prizes?
5. Unfortunately we won none. Although our class did quiet well, a lot of the other
6. classes did even better. Their costumes were more beautiful than us and
7. their props were more real – one class had a life-sized model a dinosaur
8. and none brought a real dog onto the stage! It was a shame that our class
9. didn’t win any prizes. However, we all had a lot fun preparing for the event.
10. Tomorrow our class teacher is going to treat us for lunch. I have no idea
11. where she is going to take us but she promised that it be somewhere
12. good. Some of us think it will be the restaurant that her father own.
13. Her father owns a cha chan teng in Wanchai. A few my friends went
14. there last week and they said the foods was really good. I will let you
15. knew tomorrow where we go.
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Form 2 proofreading exercise 2
Lee, Moira; Daniels, Ben. Longman Express Grammar Book 2A. 2nd Edn. Hong Kong: Longman. p. 41
Your friend wrote an article about the lost boy Jackie Chow. There is one mistake in each
numbered line. Correct the mistakes.
Underline a word that is incorrect and write the correct word above it.
Mark the position of a missing word with a ‘Λ’ and write the missing word above it.
Mystery boy – Jackie Chow
1. Last night, the police were still unable to find parents of the lost boy
2. Jackie Chow. ‘We have tried to contact the boys’ parents. However,
3. when we rang their numbers, no one answer the phone. We even
4. have any idea whether the numbers are right,’ reported Officer Chan.
5. Yesterday morning, Radio Hong Kong interviewed Jackie. She said
6. that he very scared and wanted to go home immediately. He also
7. said that he doesn’t know if his parents were in Hong Kong or not.
8. Jackie, who is blind, said that his parents are doctors and worked
9. for a charity ORBIS.
10. The ORBIS flying eye hospital was in Hong Kong in Monday evening.
11. It stayed for three hours to collect any medicine and some new equipment
12. for the operating rooms. In a recently interview, a spokesperson
13. for the airport said that it possible that Jackie got off the plane.
14. He told reporters to contact the Airport Authority for further informations.
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Form 2 proofreading exercise 3
Leung, Leo C.F. Summer Vacation Exercise, F. 2 English Competency. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Exam & Research. p. 67
Read the following message. There is one mistake in each numbered line. Correct the mistakes.
Underline a word that is incorrect and write the correct word above it.
Mark the position of a missing word with a ‘Λ’ and write the missing word above it.
15. Everyone knows the small insect called ‘mosquito’. It is possible find
16. mosquitoes in almost every parts of the world except in the place where it is rather
17. cold or where it is very dry. During summer, it is almost certainly that you can
18. find many mosquitoes near brooks, ponds and lake.
19. Mosquitoes have a interesting life cycle. The female mosquito bites a
20. person or animal in order to get some bloods. She needs this blood before she can
21. lay her eggs. Second, she flies to area with water and lays her eggs in the water.
22. In a few days, the eggs open, and the baby mosquitoes, call the larvae, come out.
23. In a short time, they become mature and fly.
24. It is interesting note that the female will bite for blood. She has a
25. special mouth can go into an animal’s skin or a person’s skin. On the
26. other hand, the man mosquito can only drink plant sap with his mouth.
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Form 2 proofreading exercise 4
Lee, Moira; Daniels, Ben. Longman Express Grammar Book 2A. 2nd Edn. Hong Kong: Longman. p. 66
Read the following letter. There is one mistake in each line. Correct the mistakes.
Underline a word that is incorrect and write the correct word above it.
Mark the position of a missing word with a ‘Λ’ and write the missing word above it.
27. Daer Mr Smith,
28. Re: Rule and regulations
29. Thank you for your enquiry asking information about breaking world records. On the
30. phone, you said that you were interested in break the world record,
31. who Mr Ashrita Furman set on 22nd and 23rd April, for the greatest distance walked by
32. a person balancing the milk bottle on his head. Below are the rules and regulations
33. that we must follow:
34. 1. Make the attempt on your own. Do not ask anybody help you.
35. 2. Uses a full milk bottle.
36. 3. Do not take a break. If you did, you will have to start again.
37. 4. Do touch the bottle more than once every twenty minutes.
38. 5. Do not use some tape.
39. 6. A judge must watch your attempt you are doing it.
40. You can find a judge or you can ask us find one for you.
41. If you have no questions, please write to us.
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Form 2 proofreading exercise 5
Lee, Moira; Daniels, Ben. Longman Express Grammar Book 2A. 2nd Edn. Hong Kong: Longman. p. 7
Your friend wrote an article about Jean Wong. There is one mistake in each numbered line. Correct
the mistakes.
Underline a word that is incorrect and write the correct word above it.
Mark the position of a missing word with a ‘Λ’ and write the missing word above it.
JEAN WONG – the road to success
42. Two years ago, Jean Wong was a very badly dancer. She did not sing
43. good at that time either. Now she sings and dances really wonderfully.
44. Last week, she won first prize in the Drama Club Competition. When
45. I speak to Jean, she told me that she practised singing and dancing
46. extremely hardly every day. ‘When I first started performing, I sometimes
47. felt real tired and wanted to stop,’ Jean said. ‘Luckily, my mother and
48. father gave me lot of support and encouragement.’
49. In her first competition two years ago, Jean performed very nervous
50. and danced rather clumsy. She came last. After that experience, she
51. decided to practise more. She also started going drama lessons after
52. school. Now she is extreme confident and wins lots of prizes.
53. When asking what her plans are, she replied, ‘I want
54. to be famous actress and work in Hollywood,’ she said,
55. ‘There have lots of Hong Kong actresses in Hollywood
56. these days. I want to be one of they!’
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Form 2 proofreading exercise 6
Lee, Moira; Daniels, Ben. Longman Express Grammar Book 2A. 2nd Edn. Hong Kong: Longman. p. 21
Read the following conversation. There is one mistake in each numbered line. Correct the mistakes.
Underline a word that is incorrect and write the correct word above it.
Mark the position of a missing word with a ‘Λ’ and write the missing word above it.
An interview with Ang Lee
1. Ang Lee, the director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is a quietly
2. and gentle man. May Chan met him he visited Hong Kong last week.
May Chan: 3. When do you direct your first film?
Ang Lee: 4. That was a film called Pushing Hands on 1992. I worked on
5. films before that and not as a director. I’ve directed five now.
May Chan: 6. How is your favourite film?
Ang Lee: 7. I like them all. However, I loved it when I work on Crouching
8. Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I am real happy that this film is popular
9. with both Chinese Western audiences.
May Chan: 10. Some of the stunts look quiet dangerous. Did any actors get hurt?
Ang Lee: 11. Yes, some did. Michelle Yeoh hurt her knee she was
12. doing a difficult stunt but she had to rest for three months.
May Chan: 13. Did it take a long time to make film?
Ang Lee: 14. It took over two years to plan only five months to shoot it.
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Form 2 proofreading exercise 7
Lee, Moira; Daniels, Ben. Longman Express Grammar Book 2A. 2nd Edn. Hong Kong: Longman. p. 77
Read the following e-mail message. There is one mistake in each numbered line. Correct the
mistakes.
Underline a word that is incorrect and write the correct word above it.
Mark the position of a missing word with a ‘Λ’ and write the missing word above it.
Dear Jane
57. How are you? Are you feel better now? It sounded like you had a terrible cold.
58. Last week was a very busy one for me so I planning to have a lazy day today.
59. Yesterday my mum buy me the latest issue of a magazine called Pen Pals.
60. I’m going read it today and find a new pen friend. Do you think I should find
61. a Chinese-speaking pen friend or an English-speaking pen friend? I thinks it’s
62. probably better to find someone who spoke English. What do you think?
63. I have to get back to my homework now. We going to have some important
64. tests next week and I’m sure I do badly if I don’t get a bit more work done.
Bye for now
Emma
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Form 2 proofreading exercise 8
Lee, Moira; Daniels, Ben. Longman Target English Grammar Book 2A. 2nd Edn. Hong Kong: Longman. p. 9
Mandy wrote an article about Tony Leung. There is one mistake in each line. Help Mandy correct
the mistakes.
Underline a word that is incorrect and write the correct word above it.
Mark the position of a missing word with a ‘Λ’ and write the missing word above it.
Tony Leung did not have a very happy time when he was a children. His father 1.
left his family when he is very small. After that, his mother looked after 2.
him and his sister all herself. Tony’s mother worked hard to raise her 3.
children but it was easy. When he was fifteen, he left school to work. 4.
At first, Tony tried several different jobs. For example, he had been a paper boy but 5.
a salesman. While he was working as a salesman, he met an actor Steven 6.
Chow at TVB. Steven asked Tony join the TVB training school but he refused 7.
as he wasn’t interested. However, Steven kept try to persuade Tony and 8.
finally, Tony was twenty years old, he started his acting career. 9.
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Form 2 proofreading exercise 9
Lee, Moira; Daniels, Ben. Longman Target English Grammar Book 2A. 2nd Edn. Hong Kong: Longman. p. 17
Susie wrote an article about Leon Chan for the school magazine. There is one mistake in each
numbered line. Correct the mistakes.
Underline a word that is incorrect and write the correct word above it.
Mark the position of a missing word with a ‘Λ’ and write the missing word above it.
Leon Chan
1. Two years ago, Leon Chan is very bad at drawing. He loved cartoons but
2. he didn’t know how to draw them. Now he draws very. Last week, he
3. win first prize in a cartoon drawing contest.
4. When I spoke to Leon, he said that he practised draw every day. ‘When I
5. first started drawing, I drew very slow,’ he said. ‘Now I draw very fast. I can
6. draw a character in about five minutes. In past, I was also very clumsy.
7. Some of my drawings were very messy. I draw very carefully these day,’
8. she added.
9. Where are Leon’s plans for the future? ‘I’m going to America in the
10. Summer. I have uncle in New York. My uncle is a cartoonist. He says that
11. he give me some lessons. I’m looking forward to my visit. I want to visit the
12. Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. I also want go to a New York
13. Yankees baseball game. I love baseball. I was the member of the baseball
14. team at school. I played pity well.
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Form 2 proofreading exercise 10
Lee, Moira; Daniels, Ben. Longman Target English Grammar Book 2A. 2nd Edn. Hong Kong: Longman. p. 18
Read the following article. There is one mistake in each numbered line. Correct the mistakes.
Underline a word that is incorrect and write the correct word above it.
Mark the position of a missing word with a ‘Λ’ and write the missing word above it.
Hong Kong’s green turtles
1. Not many people know that every year small number of
2. green turtles come to a quietly beach on Lamma Island to lay
3. their eggs. The green turtles, which get name from
4. the green colour of their fat, swim longer distances to get to
5. Hong Kong. When they arrive, they are very tried but they
6. cannot rest. They must pulling themselves up the beach, dig a
7. hole and lay their eggs. While they have finished, they
8. must cover up the hole but return to the sea.
9. While the green turtles are laying their eggs, must not be
10. disturbed. This be one reason why the beach on Lamma
11. Island is close during the nesting season (July to October).
12. It is also important that the eggs are looked after careful.
13. Although selling turtle eggs are illegal in Hong Kong, many
14. people like to collect the egg and sell them to restaurants.
15. It makes two months for the eggs to hatch so while the eggs
16. are on the beach, they must be guarded night day.
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