Swimming Strokes by Lee Carroll
Paragraph 2: When most people think of swimming, they think of the crawl stroke. It involves flutter kicking with your legs as you pull yourself through the water with your arms while alternating your breathing from side to side. The most important part of the crawl stroke is the pull, so strength in the arms are important. The motion of the arms are hand-over-hand. To do the pull, start with the left arm bent at the elbow with the hand pointed down to your hip while the right hand is stretched out in front of you. Pull the hand down through the water until it brush your right thigh. At the same time, bring your right elbow up and reach out in front of you with your right hand. Then repeat the pattern. To me, the hardest part of the crawl stroke is getting the rhythm of your breathing down. A typical pattern is right-arm pull, left-arm pull, right-arm pull and breathe on the left side; followed by left-arm pull, right-arm pull, left-arm pull while breathing on the right side. How many errors are there in paragraph 2 relating to subject-verb agreement, parallelism, and pronoun-antecedent agreement?
In paragraph 2 of Swimming Strokes by Lee Carroll, I found 1 error in subject-verb agreement, 0 errors in parallelism, and 1 error in pronoun-antecedent agreement. I was wondering were they correct because all the errors in the passage range from 0 errors to 3 errors and nothing higher than 3 errors?
I found 2 errors in subject-verb agreement.
To check for errors related to subject-verb agreement, you need to ensure that the subject (the noun or pronoun that performs the action) matches the verb (the action word) in number and person. In this paragraph, there is no subject-verb agreement error.
To check for errors related to parallelism, you need to ensure that similar ideas or phrases are expressed in a consistent grammatical structure. In this paragraph, there is no parallelism error.
To check for errors related to pronoun-antecedent agreement, you need to ensure that the pronouns (words that replace nouns) agree in number and gender with their antecedents (the nouns they refer to). In this paragraph, there is 1 error: "it brush your right thigh." The pronoun "it" should be changed to "it brushes" to agree with the singular antecedent "hand."
Based on the analysis, you are correct. The errors in this paragraph range from 0 to 3, and there are no errors higher than that.