WANTED: Grammar Expert

[Milz]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy C." <cindysphinx at c...> 
wrote:
> 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

I think it's the in the descriptive clause "that arise from and 
express the injustices". The clause describes "novels". So the plural 
of "arise" and "express" should be used.

Milz