Year 7 Grammar and Punctuation Scavenger Hunt!

Read this passage from Roald Dahl’s The Landlady.

It has a number of mistakes in it. You are to find and correct them online.

You should find 101 errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation. Look carefully:
some of the errors are hard to find. Please correct them in the document.
Please do not change the font or point size of the text.

At the end, print your copy out and then write your name at the top.

Billy Weaver had travelled down from Lodnon on the slow, afternoon traine, with a
change at Swindon no the way, and by the time he got to Bath it saw about nine oclock in
the evening and the moon was comming up our of a clear stary sky overt the houses
opposite the statian entrance.
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But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade off ice on his cheek’s.

“Excuse me, he said, “but is there a fairly cheap hotel not to far away from her?”

“Try The Bell and Dragon,” the porter answerd, pointing down the rod. “They might take
you inn. It’s about a quarter of a mile along on the other side.”
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Billy thinked him and picked up his suitcase and set out too walk the quarter-mile to The
bell and dragon. He had never beento Bath before. He didn’t know anyone who live there.
But Mr Greenslade at the Head Office in london had told him it was a splendid city.

“Find you own lodgings,” he had sed, “and then Go along and report, to the Branch
Manager as soon as youve got yourself settled.”
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Billy was Seventeen Years Old. He was wearing a new navyblue overcoat, a new brown
trilby hat, and a new brown suit, and he was feeling fin. He walked briskly don the street.
He was trying to do everything briskly these days. Briskness, he had decided, was the on
common characteristic of all sucesful businessmen. The big shots up at Head Office were
absolutely fantastically brisk all the time. They was amazing.
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There were on shops no this wide street that he was walking along, only a line of tall house
on each side, all them identical. They had porches and pillars and for or five steps going up
to their front doors, and it was obviouse that one upon a time they had been very swanky
residences. But won, even in the darknes, he could sea that the pant was peeling from the
woodwork on their doors and widnows, and that the hansome white façades were cracked
and blotchy form neglect.
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Suddenly, in a downstairs window thatwas brilliantly illuminated by a street-lamp not six
yards away, Billy court site of a printed notise propped up against the glass inone of the
upper pains. It said BED AND BREAKFAST. There wa a vase of yellow chrysanthemum’s,
tall and beautiful, standing jus under neath the notice. He stoped walking. He moved abit
closer.
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Green curtains (some sortof velvetty material) were hanging down no ether side of the
window. The chrysanthremums locked wonderful beside then. He went rightup and peered
through the glass into the room, and the first thing he saw wasa bright fire burning in the
harth. On the carpet infront of the fire, a pretty little dachshund was curlled up aslepe
with it’s nose tucked into it’s belly.
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The room itself, so far as he could see in the half-darkness, was filled with pleasant
furniture. There was a Baby-Grand Piano and a big sofa and several plump armchair’s; and
in one corner he spotted a large parrot in a cage. Animal’s were usually a good sign in a
place like this, billy told herself; and allinall, it looked to him, as though it would be a
pretty decent house to stay in. Certainly it would be more comfortable than The Bell and
Dragon.
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No the other hand, a pub would be more congenial than a boarding-house. There would be
beer and dart’s in the evenings, and lot’s of people to talk too, and it would probably be a
good bite cheeper, to. He had stayed a couple of mights in a Pub once before and he had
liked it. He had never stayed in any boarding-houses, and, to be perfectly honest, he was a
tinny bit frightened of them. The name itself conjured up image’s of watery cabbage,
rapacious landladies, an a powerful smell of kippers in the living-room.
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