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The ‘Titanic’ should be left alone<br />
Editing skills<br />
Read the exposition.<br />
The ‘Titanic’ was a large luxurious ship th<strong>at</strong> sank in 1912 taking 1513 people with it<br />
The wreck will be found in 1985. Since th<strong>at</strong> time, thouzands of artefacts have been<br />
taken from the ‘Titanic’. Some people think this is rong They say the ‘Titanic’ is really a<br />
graveyard and should be left alone.<br />
I dont think th<strong>at</strong> just anyone should be aloud to visit the shipwreck. But if sientists are<br />
careful I cant see anything wrong with remooving artefacts from the ‘Titanic’ People<br />
can then go to see them in museums. This is a good way to pay our respects to the<br />
people who will die in the disaster. If the artefacts are left<br />
underw<strong>at</strong>er, they will eventualy perish and no-one will<br />
ever see them I think th<strong>at</strong>s a shame. The people<br />
who died on the ‘Titanic’ must be remembed<br />
Bringing the ships artefacts to the surfase is the<br />
best way to do this.<br />
1 Punctu<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
(a) Find the 1 comma missing from a list,<br />
2 gramm<strong>at</strong>ical commas, 5 full stops,<br />
3 apostrophes for contractions and 1<br />
apostrophe for possession.<br />
2 Grammar<br />
Verbs in the future tense describe wh<strong>at</strong> will<br />
happen in the future. The word ‘will’ can be<br />
used to show this; for example, ‘He will go’,<br />
‘She will see’.<br />
(a) Two of the verbs in the text have been<br />
written in the future tense. Circle them and<br />
write the correct verb tense above each.<br />
3 Spelling<br />
(a) Write the correct spelling of the 8<br />
misspelt words.<br />
4 Vocabulary<br />
(a) Use a thesaurus or dictionary to write<br />
synonyms for these words from the text.<br />
(i) perish<br />
(ii) disaster<br />
Compound words are made up of two smaller<br />
words; for example, ‘rainbow’, ‘twenty-one’.<br />
(b) Write 4 compound words found in this<br />
text.<br />
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(c) Write 6 compound words (hyphen<strong>at</strong>ed or<br />
unhyphen<strong>at</strong>ed) with the words ‘ship’ or<br />
‘w<strong>at</strong>er’. Use a dictionary.<br />
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