Fix the Error

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    Spot the mistake!

    Read the broken sentence, then tap the correct fix.

    Next: pick Easy, Medium or Hard!

    Choose a level. Grammar

    Tap a level to start - you can always try again!

    Easy

    Nice warm-up

    Medium

    A bit trickier

    Hard

    Go for it!

    About This Game

    Children choose the correctly fixed version of a broken sentence.

    Top Tip

    Check capitals, verb agreement, and punctuation first.

    Skills You Are Practising
    • Editing
    • Grammar rules
    • Proofreading
    • Attention to detail
    In the real world

    Proofreading is a real job skill — editors, coders, and students all hunt for the one wrong piece.

    For parents & teachers
    • Ask which rule they used to choose the answer.
    • Proofread a short message together at home.

    Who it suits: Ages 7–13.

    Australian Curriculum v9.0

    This game practises these content descriptions. Tap a code to see its full wording and other games for it.

    • AC9E1LY06 (Year 1 English) create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words
    • AC9E2LY06 (Year 2 English) create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
    • AC9E3LA06 (Year 3 English) understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb that need to agree
    • AC9E3LY06 (Year 3 English) plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic-specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetically regular words
    • AC9E4LY06 (Year 4 English) plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation

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