Find the Error 11
(Extract adapted from a column in a national newspaper's weekend magazine)
What kind of mistake do you see? (Choose one:)
- apostrophes
- articles
- doesn't make sense
- punctuation
- singular / plural
- spelling
Answer: doesn't make sense
'Of course, nobody expects politicians to make nice …' – to make nice what?
Unfortunately, we will never know what the author intended to say, although
perhaps the missing word was 'speeches', or 'policies'. In this example there
is a common noun missing after the adjective 'nice'. 'Nice' is describing
something, but what it describes is absent and instead we move breathlessly
on to the next part of the sentence.
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