Find the Error 22
(Extract adapted from a national newspaper's 'What's On?' guide)
What kind of mistake do you see? (Choose one:)
- apostrophes
- articles
- doesn't make sense
- punctuation
- singular / plural
- spelling
Answer: spelling
The mistake in this example is in the third sentence. We can talk about an
'inability' to do something, but the word 'inable' doesn’t exist. The correct
word in this sentence is 'unable'. The sentence should read: 'They seem
unable to know when it's time to end a track'.
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