Which sentence below grammatically INCORRECT?
Jacob, my best friend, believes that he is as smart as I am.
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If anyone understands the directions, it is she.
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Everyone can learn from experience, if only they want.
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If I were expected to recap the meeting, I'd have to say it was a complete waste of time.
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Which one do you think is wrong?
Hint: look for pronoun/antecedent agreement.
Everyone can learn from experience, if only they want
To determine which sentence is grammatically incorrect, we need to analyze each sentence individually. Let's do that:
1. Jacob, my best friend, believes that he is as smart as I am.
- This sentence is grammatically correct. It uses appropriate punctuation and compares the intelligence of Jacob and the speaker correctly.
2. If anyone understands the directions, it is she.
- This sentence is grammatically correct too. It follows the correct subject-verb agreement and uses the pronoun "she" as the subject correctly.
3. Everyone can learn from experience, if only they want.
- This sentence is grammatically correct. It expresses a conditional statement correctly using the conjunction "if."
4. If I were expected to recap the meeting, I'd have to say it was a complete waste of time.
- This sentence is grammatically correct as well. It accurately uses the subjunctive mood by using "were" instead of "was" to express a hypothetical situation.
Therefore, all of the sentences provided are grammatically correct.