For out-of-work NFL players, the call usually comes on Monday, after games are over and the severity of the injuries are determined."
This sentence has one grammatical error but i can't figure it out.
2007-01-05 14:16:42 · 17 answers · asked by Musical_Theater 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
oh sorry it is a quote i just forgot to put in the quotation marks at the beginning. sorry
2007-01-05 15:04:32 · update #1
"This sentence has one grammatical error but i can't figure it out."
AHA!! You forgot to capitalize "I"...
KIDDING!!! Actually, I'm copy editor of the school newspaper, got 99% in English last term, and am a future English major and I can't even figure this one out.
hmmm...
GOT IT!!
"For our-of-work NFL players, the call usually comes on Monday, after games are over and the severity of the injuries is determined."
Reason for "are" changing to "is":
Think about it--serverity IS or severity ARE?
Does that help?
2007-01-05 14:22:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm assuming the missing quotation mark was just an accident on your part. There should NOT be a semicolon or a period after Monday; the mistake is that it should read "...the severity of the injuries IS determined." The verb there actually goes with "severity," not with "injuries," so it needs to be singular.
2007-01-05 14:26:37 · answer #2 · answered by Geoffrey F 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The grammatical errors are: There should be no comma after Monday. A comma should be placed after "over". And "are" should be changed to "is". So the sentence should say:
"For out-of-work NFL players, the call usually comes on Monday after games are over, and the severity of the injuries is determined."
The reason for this is because "after games are over" is an adverb clause that comes after the independent clause. When a subordinate clause comes after the main subject and verb (the independent clause), you do not use a comma. You only use a comma on a subordinate clause if it comes before the main clause.
"Are" should be edited to "is" because "of the injuries" is a prepositional phrase. The subject of that main clause is actually severity. The "severity" is determined.
2007-01-05 14:24:45 · answer #3 · answered by Jeff C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I see it. "For out-of-work NFL players, the call usually comes on Monday, after games are over and the severity of the injuries are determined." What the problem is, is that there should be a semicolon after Monday, or a period and start a new sentence. It's a run-on sentence.
2007-01-05 14:19:58 · answer #4 · answered by leon27607 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
For out-of-work NFL players the call usually comes on Monday, after games are over and the severity of the injuries are determined."
no comma after players i think
2007-01-05 14:22:11 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
quotation mark at the beginning?
actually that's a puntcuation error... ummm how about "severities" of the injuries are determined.
2007-01-05 14:19:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe it's
after "the" games cuz of parallelism, so just add a the between them.
For out-of-work NFL players, the call usually comes on Monday, after "the" games are over and "the" severity of the injuries are determined.
see it? hmm.........hope that's it.
2007-01-05 14:22:05 · answer #7 · answered by K Aries 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
bja_faith found it. Good job! I consider myself great at English and grammar, and I didn't find it. That's definitely the one, though. Severity "is", not "are". Of course, it would be equally OK to say "the severities of the injuries are...." Maybe that would even be preferable.....good luck..
2007-01-05 14:34:13 · answer #8 · answered by Astarte 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
severity of the injuries IS determined.
2007-01-05 14:36:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
severity of the injuries IS determined.
2007-01-05 14:34:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋