The problem with many proofreading exercises is that they create in the novice proof reader the inaccurate belief that the documents they will be called upon to proofread will be practically splitting at the seams with errors.
The fact of the matter is the majority of any proof reader's assignments will have been produced by very skilled and extremely vigilant individuals. These skilled and vigilant individuals won't take a devil-may-care approach to their work, content to have their watchful proof reader seek out and draw attention to their errors. No, they will view the proof reader as something of a necessary evil, the equivalent of the trapeze artist's safety net.
In order to simulate real-world conditions, the piece of copy that follows contains just three errors. You may unearth the occasional grammatically dodgy clause or a phrase that offends your literary sensibilities. However, it's critical to remember that your job as a proof reader is to find literal errors and eliminate ambiguity, not to pander to hair-splitting over the odd dangling modifier or split infinitive.
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