Find the Error 21
(Extract adapted from a catalogue produced by a major high-street store)
What kind of mistake do you see? (Choose one:)
- apostrophes
- articles
- doesn't make sense
- punctuation
- singular / plural
- spelling
Answer: apostrophes
There should be an apostrophe after '12 months' because 'half price line
rental' belongs to, or is related to, '12 months'. This sentence literally means:
'12 months of half price line rental'. If the offer was less generous and only
gave 1 month of half price line rental, you would be able to see the need for
an apostrophe more clearly: '1 month's half price line rental'. It wouldn't look
right if we put '1 months half price line rental' because 'months' (a plural
form) cannot follow '1' (a singular form).
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