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Top 10 mistakes in Editing

  1. #1Misconception

    In British/Singapore English, collective nouns like 'committee' can take plural verbs ('the committee have decided' is acceptable). The actual error is 'were' after 'each', not 'have' after 'committee'.

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  2. #2Misconception

    Changing to 'have been' does not fix the error. 'Each' always takes a singular verb. The correct fix is 'each of the members was', not 'have been'.

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  3. #3Misconception

    While 'the committee have decided' is acceptable in Singapore English, the sentence is not correct as written because 'each of the members were' uses a plural verb with 'each', which is grammatically wrong.

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  4. #4Misconception

    'Committee' is spelled correctly — double m, double t, double e. This is a commonly misspelled word but it is correct here.

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  5. #5Misconception

    'Nominations' is spelled correctly — nominate + ions. No spelling error here.

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  6. #6Misconception

    'Goes' is third-person singular; the subject 'My family and I' is plural — it should be 'go', not 'goes'.

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  7. #7Misconception

    'My family and I has gone' uses 'has' which is singular; the subject is plural. Also, 'every Sunday' indicates a habitual action, not a completed one.

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  8. #8Misconception

    'My family and I is going' uses 'is' which is singular; the subject is plural. Also, the time signal 'every Sunday' indicates habitual present, not a continuous action.

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  9. #9Misconception

    Changing to past perfect does not fix the grammatical error. The subject 'the news' is singular and requires 'has', not 'have' — the tense change is unnecessary.

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  10. #10Misconception

    'The news' is a singular noun (despite ending in -s) and requires a singular verb 'has caused', not 'have caused'.

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