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EDITING SKILLS

Directions: Read the passage below. How many mistakes can you find? Use the proofreading marks to show the mistakes. Then rewrite the passage with the corrected mistakes.

Strike! Kayode Tau, and Dusima went bowling. On his first turn,

Kayode got a strike! On his turn, Tau's Ball went into the gutter

The best bowlur of the day was Dusima who finished with a

score of 128. Everyone had a grate time

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Answer Key:

Strike!

(indent)Kayode, Tau, and Dusima went bowling. On his first

turn, Kayode got a strike! On his turn, Tau's ball went into the

gutter. The best bowler of the day was Dusima who finished

with a score of 128. Everyone had a great time.

Skills:

indent

commas in a list

lower case for common nouns

punctuation

spelling