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    Quote Originally Posted by Barbarossa View Post
    How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think that nothing was wrong with it at all, and in fact, nothing is. But it is unusual. Why? If you study it and think about it you may find out, but I am not going to assist you in any way. You must do it without coaching. No doubt if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you. I don't know. Now, go to work and try your luck.
    the bold should be "all; and in fact, nothing is." There needs to be a semicolon after "all" because a comma cannot join two independent clauses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ænima View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Barbarossa View Post
    How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think that nothing was wrong with it at all, and in fact, nothing is. But it is unusual. Why? If you study it and think about it you may find out, but I am not going to assist you in any way. You must do it without coaching. No doubt if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you. I don't know. Now, go to work and try your luck.
    the bold should be "all; and in fact, nothing is." There needs to be a semicolon after "all" because a comma cannot join two independent clauses.
    Yes that too...

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    Quote Originally Posted by thewizeard View Post
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    the bold should be "all; and in fact, nothing is." There needs to be a semicolon after "all" because a comma cannot join two independent clauses.
    Yes that too...
    A person who cleans hissoul should know all about colons.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ænima View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Barbarossa View Post
    How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think that nothing was wrong with it at all, and in fact, nothing is. But it is unusual. Why? If you study it and think about it you may find out, but I am not going to assist you in any way. You must do it without coaching. No doubt if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you. I don't know. Now, go to work and try your luck.
    the bold should be "all; and in fact, nothing is." There needs to be a semicolon after "all" because a comma cannot join two independent clauses.
    /fail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snee View Post
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    the bold should be "all; and in fact, nothing is." There needs to be a semicolon after "all" because a comma cannot join two independent clauses.
    /fail.
    Yeah, so, um what is it then?

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    snny gave the answer. The entire paragraph is missing the most common letter, e.

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    We are waiting Snny.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ænima View Post
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    /fail.
    Yeah, so, um what is it then?
    I think he meant the "feeling the need to correct someone else's grammar" kind of fail.


    I copy/pasted the original text from somewhere else, by the way

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