Help with a writing question- Urgent!

strategicfiasco
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:48:33 +0000

To those of us who (had heard) the principal of the high school talk about
the budget, the news of the staff cuts was not surprising.

I said that ‘Had heard’ was the error but apparently it is not. Why is ‘had heard’
correct?

The seven month old baby was considered precocious (to her family) because she
was already able to grasp tiny items.

Apparently the error is at ‘to her family’ but I dont understand why. Is it because we
dont know the gender of the baby. I know this but later in the sentence they use ‘she’
so it must be a girl. I am very confused

PLEASE HELP