Feb 04, 2011 14:32
To qualify as a Textbroker proofreader-editor, I have to get a perfect score by correcting the following sentences.
1. My cat, (he's a Turkish van and so cute!) helps me edit, by slapping at the comma errors on the screen.
2. You may argue, that parentheses are acceptable. But if I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.
3. If I died tomorrow I wanted to go ice-fishing (which has always been a dream of mine), and also learn how to do ballet.
4. Underwater bears learn to make toasts in school, and can definately make one at your next function.
5. You don't need a cord to bungee jump, you only need a cord to bungee jump twice.
6. George Eliot (who was really named Mary Anne Evans and was born in 1819 in Nuneaton which is in Warwickshire) wrote Silas Marner and Middlemarch.
7. Roger has a bachelors from UNLV in Las Vegas NV, a masters from Marquette University in Milwaukee WI, and a phd from Fordham University in New York City.
[This explains why he's still driving that garbage truck.]
8. With Earth in serious danger alot of celebritys are Going Green, too.
9. The company who made the faulty DVD's are selling off their assets.
10. Zoey lives by one motto zombies are bad.
everyday,
humor