Question

unit exam: editing and proofreading
proofreading

• structure
• your writing should be on topic and effectively respond to the prompt.
• consider how the essay is organized.
• grammar
• include variation in your sentence structure to keep the audience engaged.
• check for spelling errors.
• mechanics
• look for capitalization errors.
• check over your punctuation.

proofread the following passage. what needs to be fixed? it might be impossible to know weather or not our fury friends love us, but we know from there behavior that they care about us in theyre own way.
capitalization error
punctuation error
spelling error

Explanation:

The passage contains multiple word-choice/spelling errors:

1. "weather" should be "whether"
2. "fury" should be "furry"
3. "there" should be "their"
4. "they're" should be "their"

These are all errors in correctly spelling/choosing the appropriate homophone or word for the context, which falls under spelling/word usage errors. There are no capitalization or punctuation errors in the passage.

Answer:

spelling error