Proofreading

Name: _________________________________ ( ) Proofreading Each line has only ONE mistake. The mistake may be a missing word, the wrong word used, a word not needed or a spelling mistake. If it is a missing word, use a ^ to insert the missing word. Cross out a word not needed. For the others, underline the word and write the correction above it. 1) My favourite room is our kitchen. Perhaps the kitchen is the more important room 2) in many house, but it is particularly so in our house because 3) its not only where we cook and eat but it’s also the main 4) meeting place for family and frends. 5) I have so much happy memories of times spent there: special occasions 6) such as homecomings or cooking Chirstmas dinner: troubled times, 7) which lead to the comforting cups of tea in the middle of night; 8) ordinary daily events such as make breakfast on dark, cold 9) winter mornings for cross, sleepy childs before sending them 10) off to school, then sitting down to read newspaper with a 11) steaming hot mug of coffee. Whenever we have a party, persons 12) go with there drinks to the kitchen. 13) It is always ends up the fullest and 14) noisier room in the house. 15) So what does this special room have look like? 16) It’s quiet big, but not huge. It’s big enough 17) to have a good-sized rectangular table be in the centre, which 18) is the focal piont of the room. There is a large window above 19) the sink, which looks out onto two apple trees the garden.

20) The cooker is at one end , and above it is a wood pulley, 21) which is old-fashoned but very useful for drying clothes 22) in wet whether. At the other end is a wall 23) with a large notice-board, which tells us the story 24) of our lifes, past, present and future, 25) in words and the pictures: a school photo of Megan 26) and Kate, a postcard form Auntie Nancy in Australia, 27) the menu from a take-away chinese restaurant, a wedding 28) invitation for on next Saturday. All our world is there 29) for every one to read! 30) The front door is seldom use in our house, only by 31) strangers. All we friends use the back door, which 32) means he come straight into the kitchen and join 33) whatever is happening there. The kettle goes on 34) immediatly and then we all sit round the table, drinking tea 35) and puting the world to rights! Without doubt 36) some of the happy times of my life 37) have been spend in our kitchen.