Sentence examples for error writing from inspiring English sources

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(She made only one egregious error, writing that I'd been punched in the face at a dance club. She must have misheard me — that happened to a friend of mine. I'll have to explain that to Carrie myself).

In his column of Jan . 7-8 Sam Sacks wrote of "Twain's now out-of-copyright masterpiece, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' " Decades ago, the scholar Philip Young pointed out the error, writing that "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has no definite article in its title, though one is usually put there...Huck ends his book with anticipations (never fulfilled) of further goings-on in the West.

He blogged about the error, writing: "I just wanted to share this.

British blogger Malcolm Coles caught the Daily Mail's huge error, writing, "I'm not sure it can get more embarrassing than this for a news site".

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9.09am BST 30 min "You need to refresh the page to correct an error," writes Gary Lucas.

"It could be a minor distribution of a random manufacturing error," wrote Mr Jaffe.

The Telling Error written by Sophie Hannah is published by Hodder & Stoughton on Thursday 24 April 2014.

It allows no room for error," wrote Carl J. Hocevar of the Union of Concerned Scientists in 1975.

The short answer is that a television critic with a history of errors wrote hastily and failed to double-check her work, and editors who should have been vigilant were not.

If this flexibility is limited then the reasons for why students asked about errors written into the questions could be explained.

She advises parents to take note of their financial errors, write down the lessons they learned from them, take note how they could have prevented those mistakes, and think about how someone could have taught them those lessons.

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