Find the Error 41
(Extract adapted from a promotional leaflet produced by a
well-known DVD rental company)
What kind of mistake do you see? (Choose one:)
- apostrophes
- articles
- doesn't make sense
- punctuation
- singular / plural
- spelling
Answer: spelling
There is a spelling mistake in paragraph 4 – 'we'll lsend you more!' should
read 'we'll send you more!' Clearly this is a typing or editing error rather than
a straightforward misspelling. Perhaps the extra 'l' had belonged to the
previous word – 'we'll' – in an earlier draft of the text. This mistake should
have been picked up when the leaflet was proof-read, but wasn't, and as a
consequence appeared on hundreds of thousands of leaflets which were
distributed inside a variety of top-selling glossy magazines.
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