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Proofread checkbox charter

hey guys welcome to our first grammar video our first grammar unit this year is proofreading marks every time we go through one of these units I will give you a list of objectives these are the things that I am intending for you to learn as you're going through this unit so the objectives for proofreading by the end of this unit and yes I have a cheat sheet you will understand that editing proofreading and copy editing are all the same thing they are synonyms they basically mean marks that you would use to correct a piece of writing for grammar we like to use standard proofreading marks so that it's not confusing basically if your peer edits your paper or if your teacher and it's your paper you know exactly the marks that they're making and what kind of changes you should make to your writing so by the end of this unit you should be able to use the proper proofreading marks to indicate an error in writing and you should also be able to read proofreading marks so that you can make the appropriate Corrections in your own writing so today I am essentially just going to go through the list of proofreading marks and show you how to use them so first we have spelling errors the way that we show a spelling error is to circle the word that is misspelled and yes that is not how you spell misspelled and put an S P and a period above it capitalization is the next one so if a word needs to be capitalized you simply put three lines under the letter that is to be capitalized lowercase if a letter is capitalized and it should not be all you do is put a slash through that letter when you need to add quotation marks to something you need to use the upside down caret so you rock he said that's a piece of dialogue it needs a quotation mark there and a quotation mark there it's supposed to be after the if we need to add an apostrophe again we use the upside-down carrot on top of where the apostrophe needs to go you are awesome we need an apostrophe to show that this means you are awesome if we need to add a comma in a sentence we use the upside-down carrot underneath where the comma needs to go first eat the apple well first is an introductory word so we need to put a comma right there this works for periods colons semicolons exclamation marks and question marks you are amazing I would probably put an exclamation point there and I just need to circle it that way I can point out to who's ever paper it is that they are missing that punctuation if I need to reverse some words or some letters then I use this little reverse do when we need to add a piece of punctuation to...