# The shared player-box message

## Complete fictional source

This complete new fictional editing source gives its intended meanings. Three players share one paper-card box. Its draft label reads ‘the players box’. The intended meaning is a box belonging to those several players. A second draft says ‘We do not want the cards mixed’; the writer wants the shorter contraction of ‘do not’. Another draft says ‘Come here to hear the tune’: here gives a place and hear concerns listening in usual Australian English. A final present-tense note says ‘The players likes the quiet star wave’; its subject is those several players. No recording, hearing test, real event or personal information is required. Teachers may supply unfamiliar print words, with that help recorded. The source concerns regular plural possession and the stated present meanings, not every irregular plural spelling pattern.

## Four own invitations

### Q1

Edit the box label for the stated several-player ownership and explain the apostrophe’s position.

### Q2

Shorten ‘do not’ in the supplied sentence and explain the apostrophe’s job.

### Q3

Explain the different meanings of here and hear in the supplied sentence.

### Q4

Edit ‘The players likes the quiet star wave’ for the stated several players’ present preference.

## Ways to respond

Adult reading of the full source, usual communication, larger print, breaks, pointing and exact dictation are allowed; record which. Do not supply a component’s worked answer or criterion before a genuine first response. Reading aloud means this case cannot by itself demonstrate independent decoding; adult pen work cannot demonstrate handwriting.

Original neutral first/later formative source, not a calibrated official assessment band.