ERROR CORRECTION ( 0.5PTS)THERE ARE 5 ERRORS IN THE FOLLOWING PASSA...

2. ERROR CORRECTION ( 0.5pts)

There are 5 errors in the following passage. Identify the errors, then underline and correct them,

write your answers in the numbered spaces. Number (00.) is done as an example

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Because difference tree species adapting to different climates and soil types have

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evolved over millennia, many kind of forests occupy the earth today. The primitive

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forests of several hundred million years ago consisted of less kinds of trees. In fact,

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the earliest ‘trees’, which grew nearly 500 million years ago, were like giant club

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mosses. They lacked true roots and consisted of a confused mass of specialized

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branches that climbed over rock ground. Fifty million years later came the dense

forests of tree ferns that prevailed in tropical climates of that era. The forerunners of

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modern conifers-trees that bear cones – were on the scene 300 million years ago,

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when plant life abundant colonized marshy land, building the tremendous coal and oil

reserves so important today. By the time the dinosaurs roamed the earth some 180

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million years before, seed bearing trees that shed their leaves in winter had evolved;

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from these have sprung our present deciduous forests.

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