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What's
Wrong with These Sentences?
How did you go?
Did they all look OK to you?
Hmm ... you may be surprised to
learn that there's a common error in every sentence! Let's
take a look:
1. There's lots of animals
at the zoo.
Animals is a plural noun -
there are two or more animals under discussion here, so the
VERB in the sentence must (absolutely MUST) agree with the
subject.
There's is a contraction
of two words - there and is.
Is is the singular form
of the verb, are is the plural; so the sentence should
read:
There are lots of animals at
the zoo.
Actually, it would be much
better to choose another word for lots, since this is a
pretty boring word (a bit like nice). Many would
be a better choice.
There are many animals at
the zoo.
That looks better.
2. He's been laying on the
beach every day of his holiday.
Well, for a start, he's going
to get sunburned and run the risk of skin cancer, but if he's
so keen on getting a tan, who are we to interfere?
Secondly, he's one weird puppy
... laying is what chooks (hens) do, they lay eggs; people
can lie on the beach, but laying ... hmmm. So this sentence
should read:
He's been lying on the beach
every day of his holiday.
3. She managed to buy the
three last tickets for the concert.
Lucky girl - she's done the
impossible because there can only ever be ONE last anything;
she may well have bought the last three tickets, but not the
three last tickets. So this sentence should read:
She managed to buy the last
three tickets for the concert.
If you spotted all those errors
- congratulations! But you still may like to brush up some of
your other writing skills with this
four-part writing course.
And if you missed one or more,
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