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  • Week 12 Proofreading

    Learning Intentions

    To understand the term ‘verb agreement‘

    To proof read samples of text.  
     

    Introduction

    Fill in the blanks

    Every sentence __________ with a capital letter. All sentences end in either a ________ stop, exclamation _________, or a question ________.

    A sentence must contain a subject and a verb.

    A sentence can be written in the first, second or third person. The person can be singular or plural.

    The first person refers to the author and uses the pronoun ‘I’ for the singular and ‘we’ for the plural.

    The second person addresses someone directly with the pronoun ‘you’ for both singular and plural.

    The third person refers to someone else and uses the pronouns ‘he/she/it’for the singular and ‘they’ for the plural

    Lets conjugate these verbs by filling in the gaps.

    Copy into you literacy book

    To beTo have
    I amI have
    You ______You _______
    He/she/it __________He/she/it __________
    We _________We _________
    You ________You ________
    They _________They _________
      

    Main Learning

    Now we are going to proofread some sentences

    Look out for spelling, punctuation and verb agreement.

    The verb needs to agree or ( fit with) the subject.


    Write out these sentences with the correct word.

    Correct the following sentences. What parts need changed and why?

     ‘That cat were chaseing an mous’

     ‘She had droped a pensil onto the picture she will be painting’