Speed and correctness are both important. It's not a concern about what is the error, it is a concern about where is the error. Normally we read a sentence from beginning of the sentence to the end of the sentence. The earlier we discriminate the error, the more time we save. You are right from the point of grammatical view, but the 2 error you found are in the latter part of their sentence respectively. Bai's points are correct, if you can recognize the error Bai explained to us, you don't need to read the whole sentence. consumption is predicted to reach 30 pound/year by the 21st century. not the association predicts by the twenty-first century. Actually, the association may predicted before 1990. After all, we don't know when this sentence was written. |