Guide to spelling, punctuation and grammar

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159–160)
Read the following passages. They contain numerous errors: pick these
out and correct them.
1. The reality of the situashion is that the company is facing
bankruptcy. The shairholders are demanding action and the
summoning of a speshial general meeting. They believ that only by
drastic manievres will disaster be averted. They clame that they
have been ishuing warnings about this crisas for some time, but
they have been ignored. Wether or not the firm can be rescud is
very much open to quession. The dets have mounted and the
crediters are banging on the door. There demands have to be met as
they where unaware of the state of the business when they supplied
they’re services and goods. 
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2. A Euro is ruffly equivilent to 70p. However, it is not it’s innate
value that many British people have reservashions about. It is the
surrender of the British currency. Undenibly, this is partly due to an
insolar attitude to Europe. The ‘Little Englander’ stance is still very
prevalent in this iland country. Wether this will change in the future
is open to dout. Many facters can alter the political whether and
what seemed wholly unimaginable a year or so ago can become
hard fact overnight. It may be that the British people will give up
their resistence to the Euro and the pound will belong to the
histirocal past.
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