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Proof Reading: Advanced Business Communication

This document is the second assignment submission for an advanced business communication course, submitted by Sumeet Sagar on April 24, 2020. It contains several proofreading activities where the student is asked to identify errors in areas like spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, verb usage, pronoun agreement and comparative forms. The activities require circling or using proofreading symbols to mark corrections for misspellings, sentence fragments, incorrect verb/pronoun usage and other errors.

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Proof Reading: Advanced Business Communication

This document is the second assignment submission for an advanced business communication course, submitted by Sumeet Sagar on April 24, 2020. It contains several proofreading activities where the student is asked to identify errors in areas like spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, verb usage, pronoun agreement and comparative forms. The activities require circling or using proofreading symbols to mark corrections for misspellings, sentence fragments, incorrect verb/pronoun usage and other errors.

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ADVANCED BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

2nd ASSIGNMENT ON

PROOF READING
Date of submission: 24/04/2020

SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY:


Prof. Srinath Sethuraman Sumeet Sagar
FPB1921/093
ACTIVITY: Proofread each sentence carefully and circle the misspelled words. Then write the
correct spelling on the blanks provided. You may not need all of the blanks.
1. The Atlanta Braves' uniforms have a red tomahwak on the front.
Answer: tomahawk

2. On this particuler evening, we went to the nearby restaurant to eat steak and
potatoes.
Answer: particular

3. The old woman beleived that the pathetic begger was truly in desperate need.
Answer: believed, beggar

4. The county ambulence raced quickly to the tragic scene of the traffic accidant.
Answer: ambulance, accident

5. One rhinoceros was slautered for his valuable horn.


Answer: slaughtered

ACTIVITY:
Proofread the following for sentence fragments. (Remember that fragments are pieces
of sentences punctuated as if they were complete sentences.)
Circle/Capitalize S if the group of words is a complete sentence, or circle/Capitalize F if
the group of words is a fragment.
Then, rewrite the fragments to make complete sentences.

1. Ms. Moody told her class to divide into small groups.


Answer: sentence

2. Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King.


Answer: fragment
Coretta Scott Kings was the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King.

3. While Terry was on vacation, his car caused him a lot of trouble.
Answer: sentence

4. Having been given the signal to start the games.


Answer: fragment
The signal for starting the game was given.

5. His older sisters always treated him so cruelly.


Answer: sentence

Activity:
Choose the word that is an example of the part of speech listed in the first column. Circle or
Capitalize the letter of the correct answer. (Answers highlighted)
1. adverb a. haunted b. catching c. ouch d. slightly
2. preposition a. what b. quietly c. between d. approach
3. Conjunction a. but b. goodness c. below d. are
4. interjection a. drove b. noisily c. oops d. uncertain
5. verb a. growth b. tulip c. she d. wishing
6. adjective a. reach b. vacant c. quarrel d. girl
Activity 1:
Proofread each sentence carefully. Use the proofreading symbol for
capitalization, to correct each word that should be capitalized.
Activity 2:
Proofread the following phrases. Use the proofreading symbol for lowercase to
mark the word(s) that should NOT be capitalized.
Activity 3:
Proofread the following sentences for errors in capitalization. Using the
proofreading symbols for lowercase and capitalization, mark those word(s)
that should be capitalized and those that should NOT be capitalized.
Activity 4:
Carefully proofread the following sentences for errors in using the six
troublesome verbs (sit and set; rise and raise; lie and lay). Decide if the
italicized verb has been used correctly in the sentence. If it has not, use the
proofreading symbols to correct the verb.
Activity 5:

Activity 5:
Proofread the following sentences for errors in pronoun-antecedent
agreement. Use the proofreading symbols for omitting and inserting a word to
correct the sentences. Some sentences may not need any corrections.

Activity 6:
Proofread the following sentences for errors in the comparative forms of
adjectives and adverbs. Use the proofreading symbols to rewrite the adjective
or adverb, using the correct degree of comparison.
Activity 7:
Using the proofreading symbol for deleting, first delete the double negative.
Then rewrite each sentence correctly on the line provided.

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