Homework Help: Grammar-agreement errors

Posted by Leslie on Friday, May 13, 2011 at 1:32pm.

Match the correct type of agreement error to the sentence.
a. Verb tense agreement error
b. Subject/verb agreement error
c. Pronoun agreement error
d. Modifier placement error
e. Parallel structure error

1. Although they seemed inflamed, the site of the previous craniectomy seemed free of defect.

Answer:d. (ask who)

2. Patient was brought to the operating room, induced in general endotracheal anesthesia, and we then placed him in the supine position on the operating room table.

Answer: A (and we)
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Grammar-agreement errors - SraJMcGin, Friday, May 13, 2011 at 1:47pm
1. I'd have said b because "they" is plural and "the site" is singular.

(I only looked at #1)

Sra
Grammar-agreement errors - Leslie, Friday, May 13, 2011 at 2:15pm
1. answer is b - it is a subject/verb agreement error because the subject and the verb do not agree?
The sentence just doesn't make any sense.
Grammar-agreement errors - Writeacher, Friday, May 13, 2011 at 2:41pm
I think #1 is a pronoun problem. As Sra said, "site" is singular, and since it seems to be the antecedent, the pronoun should be "it" instead of "they."

#2 is also a pronoun error, but it's not an agreement problem either.

#1 is a pronoun/antecedent problem, and #2 is a shift in person problem. [Pronouns come in 3 "persons" -- first person (I, we), 2nd person (you), and 3rd person (he, she, it, they).]

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