Find the Error 32
(Extract adapted from a national newspaper's TV guide)
What kind of mistake do you see? (Choose one:)
- apostrophes
- articles
- doesn't make sense
- punctuation
- singular / plural
- spelling
Answer: articles
The mistake in this example comes in the second sentence, where the wrong
article is used before 'idea'. Because this word starts with a vowel sound, the
indefinite article should be 'an' rather than 'a'. The sentence should read:
'Tonight, a student from Wales has an idea for …'
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