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?
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To identify the errors in paragraph 2 relating to subject-verb agreement, parallelism, and pronoun-antecedent agreement, we will need to carefully analyze the text. Here are the errors I identified:
1. There is no error in subject-verb agreement in this paragraph.
2. There is no error in parallelism in this paragraph.
3. Pronoun-antecedent agreement error: The pronoun "it" in the sentence "Pull the hand down through the water until it brush your right thigh" does not agree in number with its antecedent "hand." The correct form should be "brushes" instead of "brush."
Therefore, there is one error in paragraph 2 relating to pronoun-antecedent agreement.