Find the Error 26
(Extract adapted from an entertainment news website
published by a national broadcaster)
What kind of mistake do you see? (Choose one:)
- apostrophes
- articles
- doesn't make sense
- punctuation
- singular / plural
- spelling
Answer: singular / plural
The mistake comes in the second paragraph, where the word 'critic' should
be the plural 'critics'. If we wanted to write 'music critic' – singular – we would
have to use an article to show that we meant just one, i.e. 'a music critic'. It's
unlikely that a short entertainment news item like this would refer to just one
music critic; rather the article wants to get across the feeling that a consensus
has been reached about Mr Williams's illustrious career in music by a whole
gaggle of music critics.
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