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Mel, an Agreement Shift, and the Wrong Pronoun

If you want to boycott Mel Gibson, one should neither see Apocalypto or rent or buy copies of any of his earlier films.
This sentence contains two errors: an agreement shift in pronoun person and an incorrect pairing of correlative conjunctions.
The dependent clause "If you want to boycott Mel Gibson" contains the second person pronoun "you." […]

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Orlando, Kate, and an Agreement Shift

While some people believe that one can leave a dog in a car if you keep a window open, as Orlando Bloom did when he went to a restaurant with Kate Bosworth on a hot summer day, others feel that the dog should remain at home to avoid being subjected to extreme, and possibly lethal, […]

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