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The marine turtle<br />
Read the report.<br />
Editing skills<br />
the turtle is a reptile a cold-blooded animal th<strong>at</strong> bre<strong>at</strong>hes air threw its lungs the main<br />
fe<strong>at</strong>ure of the turtle is its hard shell, which can be up to a meter in lenth<br />
their are seven types of marine turtle most of them living in the warm tropical oceans<br />
where they feed on algae and sea grasses<br />
turtles spend most of their time in the w<strong>at</strong>er but the female crawls on to the beach<br />
to lay her rubbery-shelled eggs she digs a hole in the sand and lays as many as<br />
two hundred eggs the eggs are covered with sand for protection from the son and<br />
preditors after about <strong>at</strong>e weeks they are ready to h<strong>at</strong>ch<br />
most young turtles fail to reach the ocean as the trip across the open sand is a<br />
dangerous one yung turtles are easy pray for birds and other animals<br />
1 Punctu<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
(a) Write in 9 capital letters, 9 full stops and<br />
3 gramm<strong>at</strong>ical commas.<br />
A hyphen (-) is used in some words to<br />
connect smaller words; for example, ‘do-ityourself’,<br />
‘weight-lifter’ and ‘well-presented’.<br />
(b) Circle the 2 hyphen<strong>at</strong>ed words in the text.<br />
(c) Make hyphen<strong>at</strong>ed words from the list<br />
below to m<strong>at</strong>ch each definition.<br />
(i)<br />
mini hearted sea service<br />
dog half self mart<br />
customers serve themselves<br />
(ii) small supermarket<br />
(iii) showing little enthusiasm<br />
2 Grammar<br />
Conjunctions are words th<strong>at</strong> join single words<br />
or groups of words to make a sentence<br />
longer.<br />
(a) Write 3 conjunctions used in the text.<br />
3 Spelling<br />
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(a) Highlight the 9 misspelt words in the<br />
report, then write the correct spelling<br />
below.<br />
(iv) experienced sailor<br />
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