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PRACTICE 2

The text below is about a clean-up activity at the

beach.
Read the text below. The first and last lines are correct.
For the remaining lines, there is one
grammatical error in each line.

Underline the error and write one word to correct the

error in the space provided. An
example has been given. The cortect word must not
change the meaningd oi
- tt---" sentence.
There are no spelling and punctuation errors in the
text. ffi

It was the school holidays. The Nature Society of my school has pianned
a trip to the beach. we was going to do a beach
clean-up. we left
school

in

a bus

atl

.30 a.m., and we reached the beach at about harf an

e.g. had

(a)

hour. The (b)

sun was shining brightly by then, and everybody was

beginning to

felt the (c)

heat. Mr Lim, our teacher-in-charge gaye a short briefing
before split us (d)
into groups. we then set off to the designated part of a beach
lve lvere (e)
assigned to. The amount of rubbish scatter on the
beach did not seem (0
much, but we were wrong. By 12 noon, we has collected
ten bags filed
with rubbish and we were stilr not doing! plastic bottles, empty
cans,
newspaper, cigarette butts, plastic bags...the list
seemed endless.
However there were rubbish bins praced around the
area, people stilr
threw our rubbish wherever they liked. we finally
completed the clean_up

(e)

(h)

(i)
CI)

at three o'clock in the afternoon. Mr Lim thanked

everyone fbr a job well
done. I felt happy that I had spent a meaningfur
day doing somerhing to
help the environment.

(L0 marks)