Proofreading Symbols

Symbol Meaning Example

^ Insert a letter, word, phrase, or sentence. the The pirates raised flag. ^

, Insert a comma.

They buried jewels, rings, and coins.

.

Insert a period. Jack sneered at the captain .

“

Insert quotation marks. “ Stop!” yelled Blackbeard.

¶ Begin a new paragraph.

¶ This is the tale of…

Indent sentence. The captain found the treasure.

Bring sentence to margin. The crew sailed for days.

≡

Change a lower case letter to a capital letter. The ship docked at angle island. ≡ ≡

Change a capital letter to a lower case letter. The Map was stolen.

sp

The word is spelled incorrectly. sp There is a pirat ship.

wc

The word is spelled correctly, but used incorrectly. wc There ship sank.

so

Spell out the number/word. so Blackbeard has 4 coins. so The pirates attacked bc they were told to attack.

Take out a letter, word, phrase, or sentence. Jack counted the the coins.

Reverse the order. The two pirates were old freinds.

Add a space. Jack wantedto go.

Connect letters/words. The pirates saw the ship yard.

Frag The sentence is a fragment/not a complete sentence.

In the night. Frag

R-O The sentence is a run-on sentence/too many thoughts.

The pirates swabbed the deck and they raised the flag and they yelled loudly

because they were excited. R-O