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(Extract adapted from a regular strip cartoon in a national newspaper)

 

What kind of mistake do you see? (Choose one:)

  • apostrophes

  • articles

  • doesn't make sense

  • punctuation

  • singular / plural

  • spelling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer: spelling

In this example the word 'beleive' should be spelled 'believe'. I couldn't 'believe' it myself when I saw that this cartoon had been published in a national newspaper and no one had spotted this mistake prior to publication. Or perhaps they had noticed it but deemed it unimportant and not worth correcting. We will never know.

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