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M<strong>at</strong>thew’s story<br />
Read the autobiography.<br />
Editing skills<br />
My life the story of M<strong>at</strong>thew Marsh<br />
I was born in London in 1967. My familys main intrest<br />
was sport and my parents with activeness<br />
enckouraged me to play team sports from an<br />
urly age. But I really didn’t enjoy playing sport. I<br />
preffered to play my violin.<br />
When I left school, I found a job as a bakers asistent<br />
and kept practising my violin. One day I herd th<strong>at</strong><br />
a new music group was looking for a voilinist. I rang<br />
and with nervousness auditioned for the<br />
groups lead singger the next day. To my delight I got in.<br />
I ennjoyed the bands music and spent the next<br />
few years with happiness playing electric violin. When<br />
the band broke up in 1997 I started to rite my own<br />
pop music. My songs have been perfformmed by<br />
some of the worlds most famus singers. I now live in<br />
Los Angeles where I werk in my <strong>home</strong> studio.<br />
1 Punctu<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
(a) Find the 3 missing commas and 5<br />
apostrophes to show possession.<br />
Correct the title by adding the<br />
missing colon.<br />
2 Grammar<br />
Adverbs are words th<strong>at</strong> describe verbs.<br />
They often end in ‘ly’; for example,<br />
‘happily’, ‘slowly’.<br />
(a) Look <strong>at</strong> the words in bold print in<br />
the text. Replace each group of<br />
words with one adverb with the<br />
same meaning. Write each one in<br />
the space <strong>at</strong> the end of the line.<br />
3 Spelling<br />
Adjectives are words th<strong>at</strong><br />
describe nouns; for example,<br />
red car, juicy apple.<br />
(b) Write 3 adjectives you can<br />
find in the text.<br />
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(a) Write the misspelt words correctly in the<br />
space <strong>at</strong> the end of the line.<br />
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