Section A - Editing - Prelim

[Turn over YISHUN SECONDARY SCHOOL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2021 SECONDARY 4 EXPRESS / 5 NORMAL ACADEMIC CANDIDATE NAME CLASS INDEX NUMBER ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1128/01 Paper 1 Writing (Editing) 23 August 2021 1 hour 50 minutes Candidates answer in the Question Booklet. Additional Materials: Insert READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your class, index number and name in the spaces at the top of this page. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue of correction fluid. Answer Section A. Write your answers in the spaces provided in the Question Booklet. The Insert contains the text for Section B. The number of marks is given in the brackets [ ] at the head of the section. SECTION A ONLY 10 This document consists of 2 printed pages. FOR OFFICIAL USE COMBINED PAPER 1 SCORE Section A 10 Section B 30 Section C 30 TOTAL 70 SECTION A: EDITING

2 Section A [10 marks] Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines, about a decision that the writer made. The first and last lines are correct. For eight of the lines, there is one grammatical error in each line. There are two more lines with no errors. 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. Examples: I arrived to my destination at 2pm. ……at…… My mother always wears beautiful clothes. ……...…… Venice is a city dappled with light, tremulous and flashing, shimmering gently beneath the bridges and seeping into the many shadowy lane. Once known as 1 …………………. "the most Serene Republic", with the sun shimmering in gilded domes and pinnacles 2 …………………. and the soft splash of the gondoliers' poles as they guide their sleek black crafts 3 …………………. through the narrow waterways it has, for centuries, been the romance inspiration of 4 …………………. artists, poets and lovers. When I step into San Marco Square, it was deserted except 5 …………………. for some artists sitting at their easels in front of the Doge's Palace. I headed down 6 …………………. toward the Grand Canal and round the corner to view a Bridge of Sighs, so named 7 …………………. because prisoners cross it to the cells below were heard sighing. In Venice, getting 8 …………………. round by boat is the main means of transport. There are no cars. A good way to 9 …………………. see the city and the outlying islands is by vaparetto, the water buses that plies Venice's 10 …………………. canals along with the fleets of other craft. END OF SECTION ________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright Acknowledgments Section A © Adapted from https://www.travelwriterstales.com/venice.htm 