Sentence examples for errors in phrasing from inspiring English sources
Video of the talk should be available soon from UW. I've tried to directly quote Bill as much as possible (bolded for those hungry for sound bytes), but there may be small errors in phrasing.
My 9 year old either made an error in phrasing and meant to say cat or he is extremely self-aware.
The most serious error, in a phrase used in a leader column, resulted in the following correction, which appeared with the others already mentioned, on January 27: "In a leader to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, page 25, yesterday, we referred to 'Polish gas chambers and crematoria'.
Some of the most hilarious errors in English occur when phrases are dangled in the wrong place in a sentence and end up modifying the wrong thing.
The same is true for the 'in-phrase' and 'not-in-phrase' features.
Because of an editing error, the phrasing in part of the April 4 article "MIT Settles Shin Case, Parents Agree Death Likely an Accident" could have been interpreted as saying that MIT and several of its employees sought damages of $27.65.
He had been worried when the directorate intervened, he continued, particularly because the evidence they submitted reproduced the errors in the original complaint, confusing the phrase "Allah's servants" in the book with the phrase "Allah's lovers", and citing a description of Allah's daughters lying completely naked that did not appear in the novel.
"Garbage in equals garbage out," Mr. Miner said, citing a favorite phrase of meteorologists, aware that errors in measurements would be reflected in the results of any calculations based on them.
Errors in genome annotation.
Errors in Advertisements.
