Let's face it, you're sick and tired of being presented with so-called proofreading exercises that are little more than some public domain novel so overloaded with errors that they practically shout out at you from the page: "Here I am! I'm a glaring spelling error! You can't miss me!" There are only so many of these tests you can complete before you start to realize that these exercises aren't really helping you at all. In fact, they're hindering you by skewing your perception of the quality of work you are likely to be tasked with proofreading. The proofs you're likely to find on your desk will be produced by professionals. Far from having errors so numerous you might develop writer's cramp, you will really have to scour the pages for mistakes.
Take this exercise; it's from an article I wrote some time ago entitled, 'How to Say "Butterfly" in Different Languages' and it only contains one error. Yes, there may well be a few other little excursions from the strictest rules of grammar (it was intended as a loose and informal piece of writing), but there is only one literal error.
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