WANTED: Grammar Expert
Cindy C.
cindysphinx at comcast.net
Wed May 14 13:52:54 UTC 2003
Hey,
I saw this in today's Washington Post, and I thought I'd test you
guys. Please, if you know the answer from reading about this in the
media, let's keep the answer a secret and let folks who didn't read
the story have a go.
OK.
A major standardized test in the U.S. asked students whether there
was an error in grammar in the following sentence:
"Toni Morrison's genius enables her to create novels that arise from
and express the injustices African Americans have endured."
Yes, there is an error (although the testing bureau denied that
there was an scored "no error" as the correct answer). A panel of
outside experts in grammar was hired to rule, and they identified an
error in grammar, forcing the testing bureau to re-score the exam.
What is the error?
Cindy -- who could not find the error
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