Valentine's Day Every-Day Edit worksheet for students to practice grammar and punctuation.

Final Answer:
Every-Day edit
Valentine’s Day

The paragraph begins with a special date in February. Can you find and mark two errors in the paragraph? You might look for issues of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar.

On what holiday do many people share cards, flowers, and chocolate?
There are 28 days in February—14, so one known for love, friendship, and joy! Celebrated on February 14, we now know this day for the special gift it is. Some say a certain priest named Valentine may have secretly married young couples—oops! A note written in prison in 1415 by Charles, the Duke of Orleans to the oldest known valentine.

Every-Day edit
Valentine’s Day

The paragraph begins with a special date in February. Can you find and mark two errors in the paragraph? You might look for issues of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar.

On what holiday do many people share cards, flowers, and chocolate?
There are 28 days in February—14, so one known for love, friendship, and joy! Celebrated on February 14, we now know this day for the special gift it is. Some say a certain priest named Valentine may have secretly married young couples—oops! A note written in prison in 1415 by Charles, the Duke of Orleans to the oldest known valentine.

The two errors are:
1. “28 days in February—14” → should be “28 days in February; the 14th” or “28 days in February—the 14th” (using an em dash correctly or a comma/semicolon). As written, “—14” is incorrect punctuation; it breaks the sentence awkwardly.
2. “to the oldest known valentine” → should be “is the oldest known valentine” (missing verb; “A note … to the oldest known valentine” is not a complete clause—it needs a verb like *is* or *was*).

But since the instruction says “mark two errors”, and based on standard editing expectations for this level, the clearest two errors are:
- Missing comma after introductory phrase: “Celebrated on February 14,” is correct, but the next part “we now know this day for the special gift it is” is awkward — however, the most obvious grammatical errors are:
1. “28 days in February—14” → incorrect use of em dash; should be “28 days in February—the 14th” (adding “the” and fixing article).
2. “A note written in prison in 1415 by Charles, the Duke of Orleans to the oldest known valentine” → missing verb; should be “A note … is the oldest known valentine” or “A note … was sent to his wife” — but as written, it’s a sentence fragment.

However, looking closely at typical school-level “Every-Day edit” tasks, the intended two errors are likely:
- “28 days in February—14” → should be “28 days in February—the 14th” (add “the” and fix punctuation)
- “to the oldest known valentine” → should be “is the oldest known valentine” (add verb “is”)

But the simplest and most commonly expected corrections are:
1. Add “the” before “14” → “the 14th”
2. Change “to” to “is” in the last sentence.

So the corrected sentence parts would be:
- “There are 28 days in February—the 14th, so one known for love…”
- “A note written in prison in 1415 by Charles, the Duke of Orleans is the oldest known valentine.”

Thus, the two errors to mark are:
- Missing word “the” before “14”
- Missing verb “is” before “the oldest known valentine”

Final Answer:
the → add before "14"; to → change to "is"