PART II    PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION    [15 min.]

The following passages contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. IN each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proof-read the passage and correct it in the following way:

For a wrong word,         underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For a missing word,         mark the position if the missing word with a "^" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

Henry Fielding, the famous novelist who was    also
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a London magistrate, once made a night raid to two
known hideouts in this city-within-a-city; he found seven
men, women, and children packed away in a few tiny
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stinking rooms. All of these people, included little children
of five and six who were trained as pick-pockets, were
wanted for crime.
Conditions like these bred more criminals. One of the
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typical cases was that Jack Shepard, whose execution in
1724 was watched by two hundred thousand people.
Shepard, the son of honest working people, was an
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apprentice in a respectful trade. He ran away from it
because he fancied that he had been ill-treated, and soon
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found it was easy to make more money by thieving
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as his father had done by a lifetime of honest work.
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In Shepard's day highwaymen committed robberies at
broad daylight, in sight of a crowd, and rode solemnly and
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triumphantly through the town with danger of molestation.
If they were chased, twenty or thirty armed men were ready
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to come to their assistance. Murder was a everyday affair,
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and there were many people who made heroes from the
murderers.