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Editing Practices (Guided) Use the Error Type for Questions guide below each practice to help you check that you are identifying the right errors for each line. Train your mind to look out for the errors purposefully, instead of simply following your ‘gut’ or thinking that ‘it sounds right’. FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRACTICE, THE FORMAT FOR THE GUIDED EXERCISES IS DIFFERENT FROM THE O LEVEL EDITING SECTION. Editing Exercise 1 Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines, about shark attacks. The first and the last lines are correct. For each line, there is one grammatical error in each line. If there is NO error in a line, put a tick ( ) in the space provided. ✓ If the line is incorrect, circle the incorrect word and write the correct word in the space provided. The correct word you provide must not change the original meaning of the sentence. Because there are no natural enemies of sharks, they have little reason to fear anything that they come in contact with on the water. As top of the food chain 1 predators, they are naturally curious about anything that they ran into that they 2 aren’t familiar with, and while they obviously have no hands to explore 3 something with, the only way they can get a feel for the new object are to bite. 4 While such a bite may not be intended to kill the target, sharks have incredible 5 powerful jaw which can make the bite deadly. Sharks do not attack a human with 6 the express purpose of getting the easy meal. The digestive system of a shark 7 works extremely slow, and it is difficult for sharks to digest the high ratio of human 8 bone that is contained within a person. They is also not worth the effort to try to 9 strip the flesh from the bones of a human ― it is too time consume and difficult to 10 manoeuvre the prey with no way to hold it safe with the mouth. [10] Error Types for Questions 1. preposition 2. tense 3. conjunction 4. subject-verb agreement 5. word form 6. number 7. article 8. word form 9. pronoun 10 verb form

. Editing Exercise 2 Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines, about a report on a traffic incident. The first and the last lines are correct. For each line, there is one grammatical error in each line. If there is NO error in a line, put a tick ( ) in the space provided. ✓ If the line is incorrect, circle the incorrect word and write the correct word in the space provided. The correct word you provide must not change the original meaning of the sentence. A double-decker bus ended up on the wrong side of the road after its driver suffers a dizzy spell and drove against traffic along Yio Chu Kang Road towards 1 Serangoon Central on the morning of 7 July. Many videos of the incident was 2 circulated on social media, which showed the SBS Transit buses stationary in the 3 middle lane and facing traffic. Its windscreen appeared badly damaged, though 4 its front bumper was scratched and broken. The green metal rod appeared to be 5 stuck in one of the cracks on the winds