Form 3 English Test

Test 12: Spelling and punctuation

Total: 40 marks

Name: _________________________________ Date: ____________________

1.

Correct the spelling and punctuation mistakes in the following story. Rewrite
the whole passage.

The recent suicides of five young people who hanged themselves in masunga
over a period of one month has left many people dumbstruck.
No one knows why these young people for young men aged 18 and a women
aged 20 decided to end there lives.
There has note been any reason advanced to explain this tragedies. Residents
are steal reeling in shock and are having difficulty in coming to terms with the
suicide.
Masunga Police Station commander, Superintendent mpho Modisaotsile, has
expressed his concern about the recent number of suicide cases, which he said
are on the increase. The deaths, he noted, took place between 13 January and
15 Febuary, 2010. He said this was a shocking figure compared to the same
period the previous year when only one case was recorded.
Modisaotsile indicated that it is difficult for police to say what the cases of the
suicides were. He said in most of these cases, there were no signs or obvious
reasons why the teenagers were contemplating commiting suicide.
At times, we have had suicides among youths who were experiencing
problems with their girlfriends or boyfriends and sometimes it is when a youth
is dating a person who is not excepted by relatives, he said.
Modisaotsile appealed to the public to always seek help whenever they have
problems. He said there are many people in the community whom these people
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could turn to for help. He sighted social workers, pastors, district officers and
police officers, as examples of people who could help.
life is a very precious gift. We only live once, so we need to protect our life so
that we dont loose it unnecessarily. he said.
Psychologist, Anita Lebengo, agrees that it is possible for children to think of
suicide. She says an 18-year-old could commit suicide when overwhelmed by
stress, either from relationships, failure to meet certain demands of the soceity,
argument with parents, and so on.
Sometimes some children who suffer from psychological disorders
characterised by hallucinations and hearing voices, commit suicide to get away
from these disorders, she says.

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2.

Correct the errors in verb tenses in the following paragraph. Rewrite the
whole passage.

A young man who lives in Lobatse was dumped by his girlfriend and decide the
only thing left for him to do was to kill himself. He get into his car and drove
recklessly to Gaborone because he want to have a head-on collision with
another vehicle. Because of the heavy rains that day, his car gets stuck in the
mud somewhere near Mogobane. A friend found him there and given him a
ride. On the way back, he tell his friend what he was try to do. His friend was
shocked and took him to a social worker he know. The young man told the
social worker that he couldnt live without his girlfriend. The social worker
explain to him that he had a lot to live for and that he find another girl. After
weeks of counselling, the young man realised that the social worker was right. [10 x 2 = 20]
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