Two Mistakes at Once!
rogersgeorge on July 8th, 2023
Can you see both goofs? Here’s the comic:
Second panel.
Okay, first even though it’s idiomatic, it’s bad writing. He used a false subject. That’s when you say something like “there is” or “there are” or “it is.” The first word in those pairs doesn’t mean anything. False subject. Write what the actual subject is.
The other goof is that “their” is the wrong spelling! If you’re gonna have a false subject, it’s “there.”
Sigh.
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