Proofreading Practice
Read the paragraph. Find the five misspelled words and circle them. Then, on the numbered lines
below, write the correct spelling for each circled word.
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Archaeologist Yuan Zhongyi made what seemed an impulsave decision in 1974. Assuming
that a farmer's far-fetched claims were valed, Yuan started a dig in a remote Chinese field.
Soon he had leteral proof that a two-thousand-year-old legend was true. He found a buried
army of life-sized clay soldiers guarding the tomb of China's first emperor. Each soldier was
unique, even down to the mustaiche. Yuan's work continues to anhance our knowledge of the
ancient world.
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