My teacher wants me to proofread and make corrections on the following. Can you help me. I will send over the question and then below is what I have revised will you check it for me?
The following paragraph contains five errors in grammar, punctuation, mechanics, or usage. Copy and paste the paragraph into the textbox, and then revise to correct the errors.
3. Web searches can easily verify this. Try this, use a database of news sources like Google News, in order to get a lower number of irrelevant results (like pages about the pianist Emmanuel Ax and the retailer A/X Armani Exchange) than using regular google. If you type each of the variants into the search window, you'll find that about three times more articles containing "ax" than contain "axe".
Revision:
Web searches can easily verify this. Try this, use a database of news sources like, Google News, in order to get a lower number of irrelevant results like, pages about the pianist, Emmanuel Ax and the retailer, A/X Armani Exchange, than using regular Google. If you type each of the variants into the search window, you will find about three times more articles containing, “ax than contain axe”.
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... containing "ax" than contain "axe."
Should be ... containing "ax" rather than "axe."
Sure, I'd be happy to help you proofread and make corrections to your revised paragraph. Here's your revised paragraph with the errors I found marked:
Web searches can easily verify this. Try this, use a database of news sources like, Google News, in order to get a lower number of irrelevant results like, pages about the pianist, Emmanuel Ax and the retailer, A/X Armani Exchange, than using regular Google. If you type each of the variants into the search window, you will find about three times more articles containing, "ax than contain axe".
Here are the errors I found in your revised paragraph:
1. In the phrase "like, Google News," there should not be a comma before "Google News."
2. In the phrase "like, pages about the pianist, Emmanuel Ax and the retailer, A/X Armani Exchange," there should not be commas before "pages about" and "retailer." The placement of commas is unnecessary.
3. In the phrase "If you type each of the variants into the search window, you will find about three times more articles containing, 'ax than contain axe'," there shouldn't be a comma before the closing quotation mark.
Here's the corrected revised paragraph:
Web searches can easily verify this. Try this, use a database of news sources like Google News in order to get a lower number of irrelevant results like pages about the pianist Emmanuel Ax and the retailer A/X Armani Exchange than using regular Google. If you type each of the variants into the search window, you will find about three times more articles containing 'ax' than contain 'axe'.
Remember, it's always a good idea to proofread your own writing and double-check for any errors before submitting it.