<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/964810f3-1d06-47ea-b62f-4fe9a3e3a7ad/EFA6D7EB-9302-4372-A650-263EE23B226F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/index.html" href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wsu.edu:8080</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/index.html"> <H1 align=center>Common Errors in English</H1> <P align=center><A href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html"><IMG src="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/teacher.jpeg"></A> <P><IMG src="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/rule.gif"> <A href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html"> <H2 align=center>Go to list of errors.</H2></A> <P><IMG src="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/rule.gif"> <P> <P><I>What is an error in English?</I><BR>The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I’ll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we’re concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EFA6D7EB-9302-4372-A650-263EE23B226F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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