Unfortunately due to the recent blizzard I have been unable to get around much to look for grammar goofs. Luckily, I decided to go to the Springfield News-Leader Web site and found something right away. Take a look at this sentence from the article "Pizza always wins on Super Bowl Sunday":
For sit-down pizza restaurants, Super Bowl isn't so super, since diners are likely to be glued to their seats for three hours or more, says Tony Gemignani, who owns both take-out and eat-in pizza parlors in Northern California, including the well-known Tony's Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco's North Beach district and the new Pizza Rocks in Sacramento.
Now this sentence has several errors, despite the fact that it actually appears to be grammatically correct. Most technical writers would agree that this sentence is too long and lacks clarity. There are no quotes at the beginning, which may be due to paraphrasing as opposed to a direct quote, but the wording afterwards suggests it is a quote.
However, the part that bugs me the most is "Super Bowl isn't so super." This part of the sentence is lacking an article, and could be fixed with changing it to "the Super Bowl isn't so super" or even "Super Bowl Sunday isn't so super." I am assuming this is a simple typo, but regardless, it is definitely a grammar goof.
By the way, there is one last day to vote, so don't forget to take my poll! Thanks for reading!
For sit-down pizza restaurants, Super Bowl isn't so super, since diners are likely to be glued to their seats for three hours or more, says Tony Gemignani, who owns both take-out and eat-in pizza parlors in Northern California, including the well-known Tony's Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco's North Beach district and the new Pizza Rocks in Sacramento.
Now this sentence has several errors, despite the fact that it actually appears to be grammatically correct. Most technical writers would agree that this sentence is too long and lacks clarity. There are no quotes at the beginning, which may be due to paraphrasing as opposed to a direct quote, but the wording afterwards suggests it is a quote.
However, the part that bugs me the most is "Super Bowl isn't so super." This part of the sentence is lacking an article, and could be fixed with changing it to "the Super Bowl isn't so super" or even "Super Bowl Sunday isn't so super." I am assuming this is a simple typo, but regardless, it is definitely a grammar goof.
By the way, there is one last day to vote, so don't forget to take my poll! Thanks for reading!
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