What the fuck is supossed to be wrong with the "6%"

>>9187444
47% voted iirc

>>9187444
>select the correct error
>correct
>error

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>>9187444
hmmhh

>>9187444
You should never begin a sentence with a number.

>>9187444
Six percent

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>>9187444
And what is supossed to be wrong with this?

>>9187464
The problem there is English itself, which, after centuries of use, still has not rules. The correct form was probably supposed to be "not" (Johnson has not equals / any equal) but it's just bait since everyone uses "no" in that circumstance

>>9187457
Fair enough, I looked it up and you're correct, thanks

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>american education

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Again, what's wrong here? Is the correct form "he had the privilege of being absent"?

>>9187457
What? I do it all the time.

>>9187480
I believe so. These are fusty rules OP, what is this quiz?

>>9187484
So? You're doing it wrong then.

>>9187487
A shitty online CLEP English test

>>9187488
But nothing bad ever happened.

>>9187497
So?

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>prescriptive grammar

>>9187470
>English is the error
Died

>>9187490
lol most natives would get these wrong, fucking retard standardized testing

>>9187444
For single digit numbers you are "supposed" to write out the number in full i.e. six percent.

>>9187500
>In the “Results” section of a typical research paper, you may find it convenient to begin sentences with numbers, as in “15% of the plants survived” or “48% of the patients recovered.” In such cases, either spell out the numbers, as in “Fifteen per cent of the plants . . .” or “Forty-eight per cent of the patients . . .” or rephrase the sentences, as in “Of the treated plants, 15% survived” or “Nearly half (48%) the patients recovered.”
It's arbitrary and I won't accept it.

>>9187457
This
>>9187459
And this

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>>9187464
It later states that's he is almost the top salesmen. The correct word there should be "few"

>>9187480
That's my guess

>>9187457
This

Should be "Six percent"

>>9187535
This tbqh, who gives a flying FUCK about starting a sentence with a number as long as you're understood

Grammarians are the most pompous snivelling eunuchs and dikey, sexually malformed ugly women who know nothing about actual language. Languages form naturally over time and the people naturally create rules of it to be understood. Then autistic English professors who know nothing about life beyond the pages of a book try to codify it retardedly, and people think they're somehow more of an authority than the millions of people who just speak a language and write in it for normal communication.

>>9187488
>You're doing it wrong then.
>What is descriptive grammar.

>>9187480
He had the privilege to be absent whenever he had an attack of asthma.

There is NO ERROR IN THAT SENTENCE, IT MAKES SENSE
You know you have to be over 18 to be on this board right?

>>9187480
>An attck of asthma

is this written by some ESL?

>>9187474
>>9187457
>>9187444 (OP)
Perhaps the error is that, If there had been a militant demonstration while the voting was taken place: it is uncertain if the 6% figure accurately represents the total of 'students'?

>>9188114
>>9188108
I suppose, they are saying the error is it should be "He had the privledge of BEING"

And yeah I kept thinking the yellow highlight was what you chose, and the X was the correct answer, my bad

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>>9187735

>he thinks he can mean what he says and be understood as meaning what he says

>>9187480
Of being. It should be a gerund, not an infinitive.

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what did i do wrong bros?

>>9188208
You used moonrunes.