Proofreading Exercise 14
The Tower of Babel
Print this sheet and mark the error type (see table at left) above the mistaken word or expression. Then write the correction on the line at the right. There is one mistake in ALMOST every line.
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Long ago, all the people in the earth

spoke one langage. One day, they

deciding to build a tall tower which would

reach up Heaven. Everyone helped and

soon a tower reached the clouds. Then

God  saw what was happened and got

angry. So he make everyone speak different

languages. People couldn't understood each

others any more. As a result, this tall tower

was never being completed.
Art
>Adj
>Adv
>N
>Vb
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Prep
Pron
P
Sp
Vb

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Un
SS

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Article
to Adjective
to Adverb
to Noun
to Verb
Number
Preposition
Pronoun
Punctuation
Spelling
Verb

Insert
Unnecessary
Sentence
   Structure
Transpose
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