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Name:_____________________________ Proofreading There is one mistake on each line. Underline the wrong word and put an appropriate correction. Ex. 1

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but words can hurt to.

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Girls may not resort to physical violence so often

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as boys do, but they is more prone to verbal abuse.

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Gossiping, backstabbing and cyber bully are but

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a few of the way girls bully other girls.

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Typically, in their early years, girls crave peer acceptance

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and belonging, says Kamy Yeung Mei-chui, the school

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social work for Hong Kong Children and Youth Services.

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“Girls’ gossip because they think having information

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makes her more likeable or accepted.”

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Amanda, a 14 years old student, agrees, “Every girl

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want to fit in,” she says. “If a blabber mouth is the

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leader of a pack, which is probably how she become

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the leader in the first place, then chances is everyone

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else in that group becomes blabber mouth as well.”

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Amanda recalls backstab a good friend who backstabbed

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her first. “ She told everyone I got in her nerves,” Amanda

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says, without elaborating. “ I told persons that she’s not

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what they think, that she not beautiful at all.”

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But there were consequences. “ Now we’re not talk,

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which is sad because we use to

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spend so many time together.”

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