Re: Grammer help please.

heron stone schrieb:
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>  noreply@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>I found the following sentence in a sample of test questions on an
>>Arab web site.  It is one of those questions where you have to find
>>the error in the sentence.  
>>
>>The box of bottles were loaded onto the truck and taken to the
>>supermarket to be sold.
>>
>>Is the error
>>
>>A. were
>>B. loaded
>>C. taken
>>D. to be
>>
>>I think it is C.  and the correction would be were taken.  Am I right?
> 
> 
> ..they're all wrong
> 
> ..the box WAS loaded
> 
Please ignore the non-standard punctuation in this reply. Mr Stone has 
his own peculiar theories of punctuation that are not accepted by the 
overwhelming majority of of speakers and writeres of english - indeed I 
believe theat he is the only person in the world to use this form of 
punctuation.

the newsgroup misch.education.language.english is a forum where learners 
of English ask questions about standard usage - it's not a place to 
propagate non-standard theories about language and puctuation - keep 
that discussion to the appropriate newsgroups, e.g. alt.usage.english, 
alt.english.usage, sci.lang etc.

The original poster asked which word was in error in the sentence. one 
of the alternatives for teh error was "A. were" - this is the correct 
answer.

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

p.s. By the way the word is "grammar".