So. I had an exam in English Language Proficiency just over two weeks ago, where one of the tasks were “language correction: identify, correct and briefly explain the grammar ortography mistakes in the following text”. It was supposed to be 13 mistakes here, but I only found eleven. Can you help me locate the last two?
“1 It’s a long way from Top Gun, Tom
2 With no frills, no irony and yards of rhetoric, Robert Redford deploy (1) major star power to
3 deliver a stark state-of-the-onion (2) address. Somehow it works.
4 With it’s (3) tree (4) plot strands, Lions for Lambs reflect (5) three facets of its directors (6) Hollywood
5 career. As has been increaing (7) popular since the Oscar success of Crash, Robert Redford
6 switches between narratives to tell the story of one day. In Washington, respected journalist
7 Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) has been summoned to a congressional office for [] (I have no idea what this is all about, Terje) extraordinary
8 personal briefing from presidential hopeful Senator Sasper Irving (Tom Cruise). Meanwhile,
9 on a californian (8) university, a professor (Redford) is confronting a bright but lazy student
10 (Andrew Garfield) about his apathy. At the same time in Afghanistan, two american (9) soldiers,
11 former students of Redford’s professor, lay (10) injured on a snowy mountain ridge, fasing (11) death
12 after a botched military manoeuvre.
I’ve marked the mistakes I found (the obvious, ridiculously easy ones) with a number in parantheses. There’s a few things which I find strange, but that’s mostly syntactical stuff, which is probably just unfamiliar. The rest seems as incomprehensible as when I had the exam fifteen and an half day ago. Help?

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Hm… maybe it should be “yards of rhetoricS”? And “for AN extraordinary personal briefing”?
17. December 2007 @ 18:34 ( Permalink )
Both sound good. I thought about the latter one, but the whole “[]” thing really put me off.
19. December 2007 @ 22:22 ( Permalink )