20860_Editing_explanations_Years_4_and_5

How chewing gum is made
Editing skills
Read the explanation.
Chewing gum is made with three basic ingredients
gum base,
sweeteners, and
flavourings.
The mane ingredient of chewing gum is the gum
base witch is like rubber it makes the gum chewy
and also gives it a smooth tecksture. When chewing
gum were first produced gum base was made from tree
sap, but now artificiall gum bases are used as the
gum base gets warm in your mouth it soffens and
the flavour of the gum is releesed sweeteners and
flavourings is added to the gum base. The most
commonn sweeteners added to chewing gum are
sugar and corn sirup the most popular flavourings
used in chewing gum are pepermint and spearmint.
1 Punctuation
(a) Write the 4 missing capital letters, 4 full
stops, 3 commas and the colon missing
from the offset list.
2 Grammar
In any sentence, the subject and the verb
have to agree in person and in number; for
example, ‘He chews’ but ‘They chew’.
(a) Two verbs in the text do not agree with
their subjects. Write the correct form of
each verb in the space at the end of each
line where it is found.
Prepositions are positional words placed before
nouns and pronouns to indicate their relation to
other words; for example, ‘under’, ‘for’, ‘by’.
(c) Find the 4 different prepositions in bold
type in the text and write them below.
(d) Write 2 sentences, using one of these
prepositions in each.
(b) Circle the correct verbs.
(i) Mum and Dad hate/hates chewing
gum.
(ii) We buy/buys it regularly.
(iii) I takes/take it to chew after school.
(iv) My sister hide/hides it.
3 Spelling
(a) Write the misspelt words correctly in the
space at the end of the line.
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