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PROOFREADING MARKS MARKS & MEANINGS
EXAMPLES
Capitalize
They fished in lake tahoe.
They fished in Lake Tahoe.
Make it lowercase
Five Students missed the Bus.
Five students missed the bus.
Spelling mistake
The day was clowdy and cold.
The day was cloudy and cold.
Add a period
Tomorrow is a holiday
Tomorrow is a holiday.
Delete (remove)
Kim knew the the answer.
Kim knew the answer.
Add a word
Six were in the litter.
Six pups were in the litter.
Add a comma
He ate peas corn and squash.
He ate peas, corn, and squash.
Reverse words or letters
An otter swam in the bed kelp.
An otter swam in the kelp bed.
Add an apostrophe
The childs bike was red.
The child’s bike was red.
Add quotation marks
Why can’t I go? she cried.
“Why can’t I go?” she cried.
Make a space
He read twobooks.
He read two books.
Close the space
Her favorite game is soft ball.
Her favorite game is softball.
Begin a new paragraph
We had. Next we went to
We had. Next we went to
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