WANTED: Grammar Expert

[Milz]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Milz" <absinthe at m...> wrote:
> --- 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

I think my brain was on stand-by with that post. So completely 
disregard it....

I still think the error has something to do with clause agreement. OR 
it has to do with the final portion. Maybe it should read "...African 
Americans endure"

Milz