Find the Error 46
(Extract adapted from a promotional leaflet available at a large country hotel)
What kind of mistake do you see? (Choose one:)
- apostrophes
- articles
- doesn't make sense
- punctuation
- singular / plural
- spelling
Answer: spelling
This spelling mistake, spotted on a leaflet at a large country hotel, was
probably a typing mistake which wasn't corrected when the leaflet was
proofread – if it was proofread at all. When spelling the time we wouldn't write
'1 O'clock' with a capital 'O', but rather with all lower case letters, like this: '1
o'clock'. This mistake may have been caused by an over-eager wordprocessing
program, which automatically altered the 'o' in 'o'clock' – perhaps
it thought it was starting a new sentence. New sentences always start with a
capital letter. It shows the value of sitting down with whatever you have just
typed and printed off the computer and spending a few minutes reading it
through slowly, looking for straightforward mistakes like this one. Those extra
few minutes spent proof-reading – and then perhaps editing and reprinting
your work – will really pay dividends, because the image that your work
projects afterwards will be far more professional.
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