The document provides correction marks for a short biography about Jack Friedhamm that contains multiple errors in tense, punctuation, word order, prepositions, wrong words, grammar, and spelling. The corrections are then shown and the reader is asked to compare their version to the corrected one. Key details include Jack's birthplace, education history in medicine, meeting his wife Cindy, having two children, and living in Queens for the past two years.
2. Correction Marks
T = tense
P = punctuation
WO = word order
Prep = preposition
WW = wrong word
GR = grammar
Y upside down = word missing
SP = spelling
3. Find and mark the mistakes in the following
short biography.
Jack Friedhamm was born to New York in
October 25, 1965. He began school at the age of
six and continued until he was 18 years. He then
went to New York University to learn Medicine.
He decided on Medicine because he liked biology
when he was at school. While he was to
University he met his wife Cindy. Cindy was a
beautiful woman with hair long black. They went
along for yeers before they decided getting
married. Jack began to work like a doctor as soon
as he graduated to Medical School. They had two
children named Jackie and Peter, and have lived
in Queens since the past two years. Jack is very
interested painting and likes to paint portraits of
his sun Peter.
4. Compare your corrected version with the following:
Jack Friedhamm was born in New York on
October 25, 1965. He began school at the age of
six and continued until he was 18 years old. He
then went to New York University to learn Medicine.
He decided on Medicine because he liked biology
when he was at school. While he was at
University, he met his wife Cindy. Cindy was a
beautiful woman with long black hair. They went
out for years before they decided to get married.
Jack began to work as a doctor as soon as he had
graduated from Medical School. They have had two
children named Jackie and Peter, and have lived in
Queens for the past two years. Jack is very
interested in painting and likes to paint portraits of
his son Peter.
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6. It was time for a haircut. Lenny didn't even has look in the mirror. Even
thouhg he was going bald, he knew that he needed to cut her hair every
two week.
He had a "tongue" of hair on the top of his head. His hair was thinning at
the crown. He still had plenty of hair on the sides and back. It was what
they call "salt and pepper," a mixture of gray hair and dark brown hair. It
was only few years, he figure, until the salt and pepper became just salt.
He never let his hair grow for more that two weeks. The longer it got, the
worse it looked, he though.
He spreaded a newspaper over the bathroom sink so that no hair went
down the drain. He plugged in the clippers and started cuting his hair.
He stared at the back of his head, went to the sides, and finished on the
top. Every minute or so, he had to clean the hair out of the blades with
an old toothbrush.
Finished, he picked up an hand mirror to check out the back of his jead.
Everything looked okay. She carried the newspaper back out to the
kitchen and shook the hair clippings into the trash can.
Then he took a shower.