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Re:Failed to delight. Post-mortem of Delight IO by ronilan on Sunday January 26, 2014 @06:08AM (#7124744)
Not in the article but still a good example:

> There are an alarming amount of typos and grammatical errors ...

Errors are countable. Should be:

There is an alarming number of typos and grammatical errors ...

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Re:Failed to delight. Post-mortem of Delight IO by raverbashing on Sunday January 26, 2014 @08:10AM (#7124959)
Countable elements should use are instead of is

There are many cars. There is much pain.

http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/nouns3.php

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Re:Failed to delight. Post-mortem of Delight IO by ronilan on Sunday January 26, 2014 @08:26AM (#7124987)
The number is singular.

There are many errors. There is an alarming number of them. There is too much debate. But not enough tipos.

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Re:Failed to delight. Post-mortem of Delight IO by raverbashing on Sunday January 26, 2014 @08:30AM (#7124997)
Your right ;) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/number (item 5)
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Re:Failed to delight. Post-mortem of Delight IO by seanmcdirmid on Sunday January 26, 2014 @07:21AM (#7124871)
I would call that borderline, the original phrase was still clear and wasn't hard to read. Also, as verbal empire English, it's fine.

Living in china, I'm asked to correct a lot of grammars.

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Re:Failed to delight. Post-mortem of Delight IO by tinco on Sunday January 26, 2014 @11:26AM (#7125585)
What's your favourite grammar to correct?
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Re:Failed to delight. Post-mortem of Delight IO by erichocean on Sunday January 26, 2014 @12:48PM (#7125944)
Nice.
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