Question: “Telephone companies supported the cause of financial independence for women by providing many with jobs such as a switchboard operator.”
The error is supposed to be in “a switchboard operator” but I don’t know why it’s wrong. Please help!
A switchboard operator is a person, not a job. It’s a subtle distinction we rarely make in everyday speech.
switchboard operator should be switchboard operators because of noun agreement. women = operators, not operator, which is one person
Thank you!!
(Thanks to) the strength (of) bonds between (its) constituent carbon atoms , a diamond has exceptional properties (that makes) it useful in a wide variety of industrial applications.No error.
What’s wrong and why?
Properties don’t MAKES, they MAKE.
A diamond has exceptional properties that make it useful in a wide variety of industrial applications. Since “properties” is plural, original verb “makes”, which is singular, should be make, plural