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P1 Proofreading Exercises

The document outlines the rules for using capital letters, punctuation, and the simple present tense in English. It includes exercises for correcting sentences, filling in blanks, and rewriting sentences with proper capitalization and punctuation. Additionally, it provides an answer key for the exercises included.

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P1 Proofreading Exercises

The document outlines the rules for using capital letters, punctuation, and the simple present tense in English. It includes exercises for correcting sentences, filling in blanks, and rewriting sentences with proper capitalization and punctuation. Additionally, it provides an answer key for the exercises included.

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1 Capital Letters

We use a capital letter:


• at the start of each sentence e.g. This is my father.
• for classes and subjects e.g. Class 1A, the English lesson
• for the pronoun ‘I’ e.g. My brother and I
• for the names of places, titles and people e.g. Roy and Mr Li live in Fanling.
Places Titles First names Family names
Central, Fanling, Mr, Miss, Mrs, Dr Aiden, Ariel, Chan, Cheung,
Lantau Island, Chloe, Daniel, Chow, Lam, Lau,
Tai Po, Yuen Long, Evan, Hailey, Ian, Leung, Li, Tang,
Tsim Sha Tsui James, Marcus Tam, Wong

Circle the correct answers. Marks: /2

My name is
i (hello / Hello)!
ii (roxie / Roxie).
I am Felix.
Nice to meet you.

The underlined words are wrong. Write the correct Marks: /6


words in the blanks.
e.g. She is mrs Lee. Mrs

1 who is that girl?


2 I live in fanling.
3 This is mr Wong.
4 My brother is ian.
5 Rose is in class 1C.
6 Kathy and i are classmates.
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Date:
Total Marks: /18

Use capital letters for all the parts of the names of places and people.
✘ My school is in Kwun tong. ✘ My name is Edward fung.
✔ My school is in Kwun Tong. ✔ My name is Edward Fung.
first name family name
Use a capital letter for the name after the title.
✘ Miss chu is my class teacher. ✘ He is Dr cheng.
✔ Miss Chu is my class teacher. ✔ He is Dr Cheng.

There is one mistake in each line. Find the mistakes and Marks: /10
correct them. Follow the example below.
James: Hello, chloe. e.g. Chloe

Chloe: Hi, James. who is this? 1

James: This is ariel. 2

She is in class 1B. 3

She is my neighbour too. We live in Tai po. 4

Ariel, This is Chloe. 5

Chloe and i are classmates. 6

Chloe: nice to meet you, Ariel. 7

Who is your Class teacher? 8

Ariel: Mr tang is our class teacher. 9

He is our english teacher too. 10

HKEP

class teacher (n.)   neighbour (n.)

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7 Revision Test 1
Rewrite the sentences with the correct capital letters Marks: /22
and punctuation.
1 aiden and hailey are six years old (3 marks)

2 listen mum is singing (4 marks)

3 can you spell your name daniel (4 marks)

4 good afternoon miss cheung (5 marks)

5 evan and i go to school in tsim sha tsui (6 marks)

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the given


Marks: /6
words.

Rules for Activity Room


1 (take) off your shoes.
2 (put) them on the shoe rack.
3 (not eat) in the room.
4 (keep) the room clean.
5 (not write) on the wall.
6 (turn) off the lights before you leave.

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Date:
Total Marks: /43

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the given


Marks: /8
words.

   Every morning, I brush my 1 (tooth) and comb my


2 (hair). Then I have three 3 (egg)
for breakfast and go to school.

   In the afternoon, I have lunch with Albert and Tim. I usually have some
4 (sandwich). The 5 (boy) usually
have noodles. Albert likes to eat an 6 (apple) after
lunch.

   At night, Mum tells me two 7 (story) before I sleep.


I have sweet 8 (dream) every night.

Fill in the blanks with the given words. Marks: /7

I  you  we  he  she  it  they

Anne: Hello, Ken! Where are you going?


Ken: Hi, Anne! 1 am going to meet my brother.
2 is at the bookshop.
Anne: Bookshop? Do 3 like reading?
Ken: No, we don’t. My sister likes reading. 4 turns eight today.
My brother and I want to buy her a storybook, but 5
don’t know about books.
Anne: How about Magic Farm ? 6 is very funny. The animals in
the book are special. 7 can talk and dance!
Ken: That sounds interesting. Thank you.

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29 Simple Present Tense Date:
Total Marks: /11

We use the simple present tense to talk about:


• habits e.g. Sue gets up at seven every morning.
• facts / truths e.g. A dog has four legs.
Statements in the simple present tense:
every day
I / You / We / They drink water. every morning
He / She / It drinks water. on Mondays

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs. Marks: /5

Verb I She Verb I She


e.g. eat eat eats 3 meet

1 jump 4 see

2 look 5 run

Are the underlined words correct? Put a tick (✔) or Marks: /6


write the correct forms of the words in the blanks.
e.g. Sally eats an apple every day. (correct) ✓
e.g. I walks to school every morning. (wrong) walk

1 Jack write a diary entry every day.


2 The sun rise in the east.
3 Harry plays with his friends every day.
4 Danny and I swims on Mondays.
5 The dogs bark every night.
6 Mum and Dad reads the newspaper every morning.
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Grammar Summary
Capital Letters
At the start of each sentence e.g. This is my father.
For classes and subjects e.g. Class 1A, the English lesson
For pronoun ‘I’ e.g. My brother and I
For the names of places, titles and people e.g. Roy and Mr Li live in Fanling.

Punctuation
Full stop • at the end of a sentence e.g. It is a dog.
Question at the end of a question e.g. Who is he?
mark
?
What is your name?
in the middle of a sentence to e.g. Hi, Ariel. Sit down, please.
Comma , show a short pause
Exclamation at the end of a sentence to e.g. Oh!  Yummy!  Ouch!
mark
! show strong feelings Look!   Well done!  Help!

Imperatives
Open the window. Do not talk.
Close your book. Do not turn off the fans.

Singular and Plural Nouns


Singular nouns: a table  an orange  one pen
Plural nouns:
Most nouns Add ‘-s’ e.g. pens tables
Nouns that ends in e.g. dresses benches
Add ‘-es’
‘-s / -ch / -sh / -x’ brushes foxes
Nouns that end in Delete ‘-y’ and add
e.g. city  cities baby  babies
consonant + ‘-y’ ‘-ies’
Nouns that end in
Add ‘-s’ e.g. toy  toys day  days
vowel + ‘-y’
Nouns that end in Delete ‘-f / -fe’ and
e.g. wolf  wolves life  lives
‘-f / -fe’ add ‘-ves’
man  men woman  women child  children
Special cases
mouse  mice person  people foot  feet

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Answer Key
Unit 1
A (i) Hello (ii) Roxie
B 1. Who 2. Fanling 3. Mr 4. Ian 5. Class 6. I
1. who  Who 2. ariel  Ariel 3. class  Class 4. po  Po
5. This  this 6. i  I ( 主語代名詞 I 放在任何位置都是大階。 ) 7. nice  Nice
C
8. Class  class ( 這裏的 class 不是指班級,因此不用大階。 )
9. tang  Tang 10. english  English

Unit 2
A (i) , (ii) !
B 1. ? 2. ! 3. , 4. . 5. , 6. ?
1. . Miss  , 2. ?  . 3. in.  , 4. !  ? 5. ,  . 6. name?  ,
C 7. nice  Nice ( 句號後以大楷開首。 ) 8. ,  !
9. Hailey.  , ( 當指明說話對象時,在人名後使用逗號。 ) 10. Chan,  .

Unit 3
A (i) Look (ii) Do not play
B 1. Open 2. close 3. Clean 4. not 5. Turn 6. Do
1. standing  stand 2. talks  talk 3. Listening  Listen 4. ?  . 5. Reads  Read
C 6. Answering  Answer 7. Dont  Don’t (Do not 的縮寫是 Don’t 。 )
8. Sleep  sleep 9. Donot  Don’t (Do not 的縮寫是 Don’t 。 ) 10. ^please  ,

Unit 4
A (i) books (ii) book
B 1. paintbrushes 2. pencil 3. umbrella 4. pens 5. bear 6. classes
1. bags  bag 2. book  books 3. cases  case 4. erasers  eraser 5. crayon  crayons
C 6. box  boxes 7. boxes  box ( 上句提及其中一個盒子是黃色,可見只有一個黃色盒子。 )
8. sandwich  sandwiches 9. friendes  friends 10. snack  snacks

Unit 5
A (i) wolves (ii) puppies
B 1. boys 2. woman 3. babies 4. city 5. people 6. toys
1. glass  glasses 2. banana  bananas 3. leaf  leaves 4. lemones  lemons
5. strawberry  strawberries 6. peach  peaches 7. men  man
C
8. child  children ( 園丁在向 Sally 及 Tom 說話,因此改為複數。 )
9. waters  water (water ( 水 ) 是不可數名詞,沒有複數。 ) 10. dayies  days

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