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• Communication Excellence for Front Line Staff ($1,895) – Toronto, Oct. 22-23
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• Communication Skills ($399) – Toronto, Nov. 19
• Emotional Intelligence ($399) – Toronto, Nov. 25
• Speed Reading ($399) – Toronto, Nov. 27
On-The-Right-Track Training and Consulting | www.on-the-right-track.com | (877) 213-8608
• Introduction to Minute Taking ($124) – webinar, August 13
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Grammar Watch: Read it once more
(answers)
Here are the sentences (with errors)
again:
(1) One of the first things a custom-
er sees when they walk through
the doors at King and Bay are a
bank of iPads loaded with BMO's
products and services.
Correct version:
The subject is one (not things),
so the verb should be is (not are).
Also, they is plural but its anteced-
ent is customer, which is singular.
So rewrite the sentence to read:
One of the first things custom-
ers see when they walk through the
doors at King and Bay is a bank of
iPads loaded with BMO's products
and services.
The errors in (1) are all too com-
mon. When the pronouns they or
their are inevitable in your sentence,
try to find a way to make the an-
tecedent plural as well – as we did
here with customer / customers.
(2) In another larger study of 4,757
adults, those who broke up there
sedentary time more often were
more likely to have lower waist
circumference and better health
markers then those who had less
breaks in their sedentary time.
Correct version:
Change there to their; change
lower to smaller (more appropriate
when describing circumference);
change then to than; change less to
fewer (items that could be counted).
So the sentence should read:
In another larger study of 4,757
adults, those who broke up their
sedentary time more often were
more likely to have smaller waist
circumference and better health
markers than those who had fewer
breaks in their sedentary time.
