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"Ministerail": The Problem Of Correcting Typos by TRUTHTOPOWER: 5:21pm On Oct 14, 2015 |
quote author=klem93 post=38963382]It was typed MINISTERAIL instead of MINISTERIAL. Some said typographical error but for level of where it was sent from and where it was sent to is this mistake suppose to occur? http://www.maxgist.com/2015/10/photo-did-you-see-mistake-on.html [/quote] It is amusing that whenever someone comes up to correct a typo he ends up making the Queen of England choke on poisonous grammar. For obvious reasons, it is actually difficult to maintain accuracy when writing on a forum such as this. Keypad, auto-correction, haste and all that. However, when you choose to correct others or point out an error, you will do we to avoid committing greater blunder. In the "corrector's" word above check his use of preposition in "for level of where". "For" should be replaced with "at" and a definite article "the" must be included in the phrase. Why? "at" and "in" "on" "upon" "whereof" etc are the appropriate prepositions for indicating space and time. "Suppose to occur" Seriously, you are not "supposed" to use the verb form but the adjectival of suppose which is "supposed". Puctuation is also necessary for mechanical accuracy. I am sure the reader can easily figure this out. Candidly, I had to a crash course in grammar so as to put my prima face objections to the above quote in a the context of jargons! Bottom line: do unto others as you want them to do unto you. |
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