Friday, September 30, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
This is a t-shirt available on several websites. I've tried and tried to figure out why the apostrophe is there. If there were a dance named the Dolphin's Rock or if there were a place called Dolphin's Rock, the apostrophe would be acceptable. I think the shirt means that dolphins are awesome...they rock. I think the shirt should read "Dolphins Rock."
Friday, September 16, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Three mistakes and one commendation in this one... The commendation is for using "he or she" with the antecedent "cashier." Cashier is singular; therefore, he/she is necessary. The second sentence should read "Every customer WHO" because a customer is a person, not a thing. The second mistake is that "every customer" is singular and the pronoun "their" is plural. Since "their" refers to "customer" "their" should be "his or her." The third mistake is that "nest" should be "next." This sign is from a McAlister's Deli in Little Rock.
Sunday, September 04, 2011
This blurb from Little Rock's Ya-Ya's menu contains two sentence formation errors. The first sentence is a comma splice because those two independent clauses are joined with just a comma. The comma could he replaced with a semicolon or a coordinating conjunction could be inserted after the comma to correct this error. The final sentence has an unnecessary comma. It is unnecessary because the conjunction, which is AND in this sentence, is connecting two parts of the same sentence; it is not connecting two sentences/independent clauses. The food and service are top-notch, and I hope to return soon.
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