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Colin, Tom, and an Error in Diction: allusion/illusion

Colin Farrell has been publicly mocking his Minority Report co-star Tom Cruise. In an interview on Today, Colin said to host Matt Lauer, "Stop being glib, Matt! You're glib, Matt, you're glib, you're glib." Colin was making an illusion to Tom's accusation that Matt was being glib when he questioned the celebrity Scientologist about his […]

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Tom and an Error in Subject/Verb Agreement

King of Queens star and Scientologist Leah Remini is the only one of Tom Cruise's friends who have seen his daughter Suri.
This sentence contains an error in subject/verb agreement. The presence of the word "only" before "one of Tom Cruise's friends" makes the antecedent of the pronoun "who" not "friends," but "one." Since "one" is […]

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Suri and cite/sight/site

The verb "cite" means "to refer to or quote as an example, authority, or proof."
Us Weekly cites the statement of an unnamed source in an article about the absence of photographs of Suri Cruise.
The verb "sight" means "to catch a look at" and the noun "sight" means "something that is seen; the act or sensation […]

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Tom and a Pronoun Person Shift

Tom Cruise will be reenacting a scene from Mission Impossible:III for the film's Japanese premiere. He will amaze fans as he is chased in a speedboat by a helicopter, and he will commandeer a train and meet with you on board during the trip from Osaka to Tokyo.
The second sentence contains a pronoun error. The […]

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