Hand out this printable student work sheet with the uncorrected text for students to find errors of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs is born on September 1 1875, in Chicago, Illinoi. As a seller of pencil sharpners, he was always looking through magazines to spot adds for his products. He read many storys in those magezines and knew that he could writ even better ones. So he started to write his own fictional tails. Some of his famous works include Tarzan of the apes and The Land That Time Forgot.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois. As a seller of pencil sharpeners, he was always looking through magazines to spot ads for his products. He read many stories in those magazines and knew that he could write even better ones. So he started to write his own fictional tales. Some of his famous works include Tarzan of the Apes and The Land That Time Forgot.
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