“He’s not a guy who feels the suit to be constricting. Wearing the mask and putting on the suit gives him absolute freedom.” - Christian Bale, about his Batman character in The Dark Knight
Christian has made an error in subject/verb agreement. In the second sentence, the subject is the compound noun “Wearing the mask and putting on the suit,” which is plural. However, the verb, “gives,” is singular. One way to correct the error is to change the verb to its singular form.
“Wearing the mask and putting on the suit give him absolute freedom.”
In the first sentence, Christian correctly used the relative pronoun “who” to refer to “guy.” A common grammatical error is the use of “that” to refer to a person. Nice job, Christian!
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