Creative Writing
Finding mistakes
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Examples
Synonyms
Confusing “it’s” and “its”
It’s | Its |
The short form of “ it is” | Belongs to it |
It’s snowing outside! | The baby is looking at its mother |
Check the door to make sure it’s closed. | The cat saw its reflection in the mirror |
It’s always nice to see a friend. | Our tree dropped its leaves late this year. |
If you can say “ it is “, then write “ it’s”
Belong something then write “its”.
Sentence Fragments
Examples:
Example: Slammed the door and left.�Revision: Sarah slammed the door and left.
Some sentence fragments have a subject but no verb.
Example: A time of wonder and amazement.
�Revision: That was a time of wonder and amazement.
Confusing “ then” and “than”
Then | Than |
We’ll go there then there. | She was better at it than him. |
They ate dinner and then they went home. | It was more than enough |
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Confusing “loose” and “lose”
Lose | Loose |
Rhymes with “goose” | Rhymes with “news” |
It means you can’t find something or the opposite of “win” | It means not tight |
Examples
Lose | Loose |
Don’t lose your keys! | Your pants are too loose. |
I hope we don’t lose too much time. | IS your Iphone not charging because of a loose connection? |
We will lose if we don’t practice more! | |
Complex example:
The team will lose the basketball game
if they catch the ball too loosely.
Read the following and find the mistakes:
🡪The money is important.
🡪The world has a lot of orphans.
🡪That person spared her when she needed help.
🡪We should give our old toys and money to those orphans.
🡪The sea and the sky has no margins.
🡪He walks to the garden.
🡪He cries loudly.
🡪She reasoned the question and it is not very good.
🡪A girl takes her home.
🡪She studies and she is tired.
🡪That island has many things.
🡪We can see a lot of elks in the forest.
🡪He stands on the table and says, “….”
🡪Tim bared his leg and walked on the street.
🡪Earthquake
🡪Doctors will reason…..
🡪There are some candies.
🡪He looks mysterious that…
🡪He is spared in the big fight a long time ago.
🡪She is an orphan.
🡪barefoot
🡪She seems deserted by her mother.
🡪He has the nerve to fly in the sky.
🡪He is in a classroom.
TASK:
Read the following texts and find the mistakes.
Rewrite the text and make sure you correct the mistakes.
Text 1: Letter
Dear ______
I was delighted to read you're letter last week.
Its always great to recieve the latest knews and to here that you and your family had great summer.
We are spent last week at the beach and has so much fun on the sand and under the water. We exploring the coast we werenot prepared for the rains that came at __end of the vacation. I thank it were a good holiday.
That all for now. I cant wait to here you from.
Love,
________
Text 2: Personal writing
Tomorrow I is going to sing a solo at Taipei’s Speech competition! I’m so nervouse! There are so many things that could go wrong My parents and friends will all be there to watched me sing.
I’m worried that my voice will snake. Maybe I going to open my mouth and no sound will comes out.
What if I can’t sing the high notes What if I trip and fell down? What if I fall off the stage? What if I sound terible? I hope I can do . I think I can.
Text 3: Fill in the blanks
Topic______________
It was a (adj) morning. I was still (sleep) because I (had/have) woken up at 5 am. I (Adv) put on my school uniform and (get) ready for (place). “Oh no!”, I shouted, “where is my sock!”. I (can) find it anywhere. I was (run) out of time. I (have) to get to (place). How can I (loose/lose) a (adj) colored sock? “Oh well I (think), I (can/will) just go to school without it. No one will (present tense for saw) me!