Daily Editing Challenges

Language learners and native speakers alike: Are you ready for a challenge? I’ve made a mess of my writing and need YOUR help to fix it!

There are two challenges each day – one for intermediate learners and one for advanced. The shorter, intermediate challenges contain exactly 20 MISTAKES; the advanced have even MORE. These errors vary from spelling, verb tense, punctuation – anything’s game!

Lower-level learners, try to find at least 10 errors. Is anyone up to the challenge of fixing everything? Give it your best shot; then, check your answer on the second page. If you have any questions, send me an e-mail and I’ll be happy walk you through it – the first two times are free.

You know that Pocahontas, unlike most other Disney princess, were a reel person?  She had only around eleven when John Smith arrives to establish Jamestown Virginia as the first english settle in 1607, but he claimed that she really did save his life after he had been captured by her father, chief Powhatan.  Few years later it was his turn to be taked hostage.  During witch time she fell on love with John Rolfe, tobacco farmer ten years her senior.  They’re marriage on April 5, 1614, bringed piece to the land, but, sadly, they would no to live happily ever after.  Lady Rebecca, as she now called, dies from smallpox three years latter while visited English.

On April 3, 1968, Africa-America civil rights Leader Dr Martin Luther King, Jr address a crowd in Memphis Tennessee.  Insisting they’re was not other moment in history he would to rather have being part off.  “…Only when is dark enough, can your saw the stars… Ive seen the Promised land.  I maybe no get there with you.  But I wants you too no to night, that we, as a peoples, will get [there].  The follow day, the King of nonviolence protest has shoot.  Abraham Lincoln dreamed about her own funeral in April 4, 1865, eleven days before he, two, assassinated.  Its also the same day which President William Henry Harrison dead in 1841 from pneumonia.  Just 32 day in to office.

At April 3, 1973, Motorola Engineer Martin Cooper make a first mobile phone call ever wile walking the street of Manhattan.  Whom he called a rival at AT&T to gloat.  Fife years later, “Annie Hall” beated out “Star Wars” for Best picture at the Oscars.  And, on the same day in 1996, FBI also one to finally catching the “Unabomber,” Ted Kaczynski, after eighty years and sixteenth mail bombs.  It sure feels god to won, but careful don’t to taunt the looser to many.  Having learn this lesson hard way, on April 3, 1948, president Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan to help all of Europe – including German – recover economics after the World War II.

Although she not join the Union until 1845 as hour 27^rd state, Florida has at least an century older than any of an original threeteen colonies?  Juan Ponce de León claimed it by Spanish on April 2, 1513, during he search for the mythical Fountain of youth.  It is Easter, the territory has christened after la Pascua Florida.  Do to hostility from native tribes how ever it weren’t until 1565 which St. Augustine could founded as first permanent North America settlement  .  April 2 also the day, in 1917, who president Woodrow Wilson addressed Congress.  Demanding that every states join the war again Germany.  He got her wish for days later when U.S. officially entered the  World War I.

Spaghetti it’s no harvested from trees regardless a famous 1957 BBC hoax, but did you knew which Apple and Gmail both getted they’re start on the same day.  Apple Computer Company was found on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.  They dreamed to design computers small and user-friend enough four peoples to use on their homes.  Though the original Apple I, selled out of Jobs garage, no come with a monitor, keyboard, and any kind casing.  Now, their the most biggest tech company in the World.  Gmail doesn’t come along until 2004, a offshoot of parent company google yet.  With 1.5 billion users, remains worlds most popular email client today.

At March 31, 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry achieved impossible by convinced Japanese to open up to the U.S. trade after 171 years of total (and poorly-timed isolated.  France, by another hand, is excited to invite the wrest of world to celebrate they’re one-hundredths Anniversary of the France Revolution on 1889, but they need a show-stopper, cue Gustave Eiffel, the mastermind behind a recently-erected Statue Of Liberty.  He plan for a open-lattice wrought-iron monument risen almost 1,000 feet above the parisian skyline – the most tall men-made structure heretofore build – were exactly what the government was looking.  The Eiffel Tower opened public on March 31 (as well) and repurposed after the invent of the radio transmission an decade later.

A few taked the Vikings particularly serious until Easter Sunday, march 29, 845, when they were shocked every one by rowed nearly five hundreds miles in land to besiege and plunder the great City of Paris.  No one were safe a thousand years later, much feeled the same way about Napoleon Bonaparte, but in March 30, 1814, the unified forces of European marched similarly triumphantly in to Paris to put a end to her empire built.  That day all so marks a failing 1981 assassination attempt to take over U.S. president Ronald Reagan by an crazy homeless drifter.  Further more is the anniversary of the 15^rd Amendment.  Adopted in 1870, who grants all African American man – though specifically no women – the write too vote.

The Vietnam War was raged for near twenty years buy the time US. force finally agreed to withdrew in early 1973.  Leaving the North and south to work they’re own problems out.  The last combat troops departing on march 29, and our former allies were quickly overran the Communists had winned.  Amidst all this tragedy, the World was excited to finally receive a positive news from neighbored China exactly won year later.  A farmer discovery of pottery fragments while digging a well in Xian Province led to unearthing of one of the most great archaeological find of all time The Terracotta Warriors.  This 8.000 life-sized statues had guard China’s first Emperor, Qin Shi Huang faithful four over two thousands years.

In March 28, 1939, million celebrate as Spanish Civil Ware final ended.  On million had perish, however, and fivety thousand moor will murdered under Francisco Franco repressive dictator.  The three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster, also on March 28, 1979.  Sound scary, but weren’t near like bad.  Burst pressure valves spewing contaminated cooling water, and the core begun to overheating.  Hydrogen gas bubble farther raised concerns that core mite to explode.  Panic spreaded and 100.000 people fleed the Pennsylvania capital until President Jimmy Carter herself, a trained nuclear engineer, goed on person to sort thing out.  No one dead directly, but plant workers suffered an 64% increase for cancer.  And America’s love affair by nuclear power over.

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All editing challenges are adapted from https://nationaltoday.com (2023) and https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history (2022-2023).