Name: ________________________ Level Date:______________ PUNCTUATION WORKSHEET 20 mks. Edit the news story below. Cross out mispelled words, capitalizing mistakes and punctuation mistakes. Write the corrected words and punctuation marks above the mistakes. a small group of zombies marched down broadway ave in oakhurst California on friday to protest the closure of branch librarys acros town. “ Fewer librarys means fewer peeple reading , one outspoken zombie explianed to reporters “ fewer people reeding means fewer big brains for us to eat.” The zombies turned out too be a group of studints from lakeside middle school . They wer dressed as monstirs to have fun while increasing public awarness for there cause. a large crowd gathered on the side walk to watch the zombies. Peeple claped and cheered in suport, Many of them joined the studints as they marchedd to city hall. the mayer of oakhurst came out to talk too the protesters. She agreed to meat with the studints on monday mourning. “ Public librarys are importent, she tolled the them. If we all work togethr maybee we can find a way to keap our librarys from clozing ” ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ Word classes (or parts of speech) All words belong to categories called word classes (or parts of speech) according to the part they play in a sentence. The main word classes in English are listed below. Noun Verb Conjunction Adjective Determiner [Link of source when needed] Adverb Pronoun Preposition Exclamation [page number if required] [Link of source when needed] [page number if required]
