20. Error Connection

17/365 Pet Peeves by mrsruggle made available under Creative Commons Attribution- No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic License

By giving this assignment of error connection as a blog post, didn't Sonja store up some trouble, as now she'll feel she has to write a new post? =)

To talk about the image, I think "quick" is an adjective and "quickly" is an adverb. The cat can move in a double-quick time, or it can move quickly, or it can make quick movements. Et cetera =)

Anyway, I looked at the wrong sentences and tried to correct them...

• Firstly, it's not THE Jim Hawkins, it's Jim Hawkins.
  

• As far as I know, a person cannot be lack of self-confidence, I think it should be "he lacks self-confidence."

• The noun form of the word poor is poverty, not poorness.

• Success is a noun, not a verb. One can say "He couldn't succeed in being a man" or "he couldn't manage to be a man" alternatively.

• If you open the TV, you may be talking about its mechanics, I mean, for example if your TV gets broken down, you may open the TV to see what's wrong, know what I mean? (Sonja-style writing) So, if you want to watch TV, you turn it on.

• I don't know if I'll be able to express what I think but behave is a "one-dimensional" word. You cannot behave to someone, you can behave only on your own, or a person can behave on his/her own. Your behaviour can be "bad" sometimes, and when that happens, you behave yourself. You can treat someone badly.

• If you have a husband, it (hopefully) proves you are not a male =) It normally means that you are the wife of your husband, who's a male, and you yourself are a female, and in this case, since we are referring to Lessing or Tannen, it should be her husband. Sometimes we think of the person we're talking about when we use those words, since we know husband is male, we unfortunately tend to say his, him etc, but it then becomes French. For instance, regardless of your gender, if you're talking about your sister, you say ma sœur. ("ma" in French is the feminine version of "my" in English)
  

• People do not grow their children. They can grow a plant. Children grow up and gradually become adults, but they are raised, or they are brought up.

• You listen to somebody.

• Marie Winn can appear on a quiz show with the name "Dotto". She can also be present in a quiz show which is or was called "Dotto".

• Again as far as I know, there isn't a noun called wearing. There's an adjective called wearing that I know of, which means tiring, hard, etc. For instance working for the process essay for a long time can be wearing. I didn't clearly understand what was meant there but we can simply say "the things we wear" or stuff.

• One cannot talk about men with similar dresses. Those men can be dressing in a similar way (it is a verb here!). If you are a male, you can dress in white, for example, or you can dress your child, but hopefully you do not put on a dress! The noun dress is a clothing for women ( wimin=) ), it is elbise in Turkish, not kıyafet. Only to put more alternatives - you can talk about men with similar clothings.
  

If I made a mistake at any point, I am looking forward to learn about them! =)