Find the Error 36
(Extract adapted from an article in a national magazine for teachers)
What kind of mistake do you see? (Choose one:)
- apostrophes
- articles
- doesn't make sense
- punctuation
- singular / plural
- spelling
Answer: doesn't make sense
On the face of things, this table of British Prime Ministers looks totally bona
fide and makes for fascinating reading. However, if you study the dates
closely you will find that one of these illustrious political leaders is out of synch
with his cohorts. The dates don't match up. According to these dates George
Grenville was Prime Minister before the Earl of Bute, but the dates are round
the wrong way, because the Earl was actually Prime Minister between 1762-
63, while Grenville (whose nickname in Parliament was 'Gentle Shepherd',
incidentally) was Prime Minister between 1763-65. It always pays to double-check
all the data before you publish complicated tables of factual
information.
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