TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee - Grammar and Style
EXERCISE 2
PROOFREADING: SPELLING, CAPITALIZATION, PUNCTUATION
Read the following passage and decide which type of error, if any, appears in each underlined section.
PASSAGE 1
PASSAGE 2
Mr Avery boarded across the street from
Jem and I were leaving Miss Rachels front steps
Mrs. Henry Lafayette Duboses house. Besides
one night when Dill stopped us: "Golly, looka
making change in the colection plate every
yonder. He pointed across the street. at first
2
Sunday, Mr. Avery sat on the porch every night
we saw nothing but a kudzu-covered front porch,
3
until nine O'clock and sneezed. One evening we
but a closer inspection revealed an are of water
were privileged to witness a performince by him
descending from the leave's and splashing in the
which seemed to have been his positively last, For
yellow circle of the street light, some ten feet from
he never did it again so long as we watched.
source to Earth, it seemed to us.
a. Spelling
a. Spelling