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ANSWER KEY Editing Practices (Guided) Editing Exercise 1 Because there are no natural enemies of sharks, they have little reason to fear Error Type anything that they come in contact with on the water. As top of the food chain 1 in preposition – sharks live in water predators, they are naturally curious about anything that they ran into that they 2 run verb form – simple form for habitual action aren’t familiar with, and while they obviously have no hands to explore 3 because conjunction – introduces a cause/reason something with, the only way they can get a feel for the new object are to bite. 4 is SVA – ‘only way’ is singular While such a bite may not be intended to kill the target, sharks have incredible 5  word form – adjective to adverb, “incredible” describes the power, not the jaws powerful jaw which can make the bite deadly. Sharks do not attack a human with 6 jaws number – mouths have two jaws the express purpose of getting the easy meal. The digestive system of a shark 7 an article – meal is not specific works extremely slow, and it is difficult for sharks to digest the high ratio of human 8 slowly word form – adjective to adverb, ‘slow’ is describing the verb of ‘works’ bone that is contained within a person. They is also not worth the effort to try to 9 It pronoun – subject is referring to action, not person strip the flesh from the bones of a human ― it is too time consume and difficult to 10 consuming verb form – simple to continuous form – gerund of ‘consuming’ manoeuvre the prey with no way to hold it safe with the mouth.

Editing Exercise 2 A double-decker bus ended up on the wrong side of the road after its driver Error Type suffers a dizzy spell and drove against traffic along Yio Chu Kang Road towards 1 suffered tense - happened in the past Serangoon Central on the morning of 7 July. Many videos of the incident was 2 were SVA – ‘videos’ is plural circulated on social media, which showed the SBS Transit buses stationary in the 3 bus number – only 1 bus involved in accident middle lane and facing traffic. Its windscreen appeared badly damaged, though 4 and / while conjunction – both parts of sentence are about damage to bus its front bumper was scratched and broken. The green metal rod appeared to be 5 A article – green metal rod not mentioned before; capital letter required stuck in one of the cracks on the windscreen. The bus captain had suddenly felt 6 in  preposition – not on the surface, but in the material itself dizzy, causing the bus to veering from its path and end up on the other side of the 7 veer  verb form – to-infinitive rule road. The SCDF responded to the incident and dispatched an ambulance at the 8 to preposition – idea of sending it to a location scene. Since the incident, the bus captain was taken to the hospital in a 9 After conjunction – referring to time period immediately after incident; requires capital letter consciousness state and is currently undergoing tests. He had been certi