Komountain Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Word-choice error
Hi.
Surfing the Internet, I found the following question. Please take a look.
Which of the following sentences has a word-choice error?
A. He introduced a quote from Faulkner.
B. There is no trickery here.
C. both[A]and
D. neither[A]nor
The answer, they say, is A. Does A sound awkward? If it does, indeed, how would you change it?
Thanks.
Surfing the Internet, I found the following question. Please take a look.
Which of the following sentences has a word-choice error?
A. He introduced a quote from Faulkner.
B. There is no trickery here.
C. both[A]and
D. neither[A]nor
The answer, they say, is A. Does A sound awkward? If it does, indeed, how would you change it?
Thanks.
Top answer
Oops! Faces represent A, and beer mugs represent B.
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I get those beer mugs all the time, Ko. They always make one's 'point B' look slightly frivolous.
I wonder whether the person who set the question wanted you to use 'quotation' instead, e.g.
'He introduced a quotation from Faulkner [into the conversation].'
Or was it the verb 'introduced'?
'He repeated a quote from Faulkner.'
Odd.
MrP
I wonder whether the person who set the question wanted you to use 'quotation' instead, e.g.
'He introduced a quotation from Faulkner [into the conversation].'
Or was it the verb 'introduced'?
'He repeated a quote from Faulkner.'
Odd.
MrP
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The Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary are against the use of "quote" for "quotation", 85% to 15%. I suspect that was the error.
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