Pop quiz
What is most wrong with the following sentence from a current AP news story?
"Rosie O'Donnell is expected to make a surprise return to daytime television by taking over exiting Meredith Vieira's slot on the talk show 'The View.'"
Is it
A) The existence of "The View"?
B) The existence of something called "daytime television"?
C) The career of Meredith Vieira?
D) The fact that a "surprise return" cannot also be "expected"?
E) None of the above? (Feel free to offer write-in answers)
My reaction, by the way, was D. Which is not to say that everything else on that list doesn't definitively qualify as "wrong."
I am such an English teacher.
"Rosie O'Donnell is expected to make a surprise return to daytime television by taking over exiting Meredith Vieira's slot on the talk show 'The View.'"
Is it
A) The existence of "The View"?
B) The existence of something called "daytime television"?
C) The career of Meredith Vieira?
D) The fact that a "surprise return" cannot also be "expected"?
E) None of the above? (Feel free to offer write-in answers)
My reaction, by the way, was D. Which is not to say that everything else on that list doesn't definitively qualify as "wrong."
I am such an English teacher.
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