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  • J Josh Smith

    3 They weren't playing against each other.

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    Raj Lal
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    not too fast :)

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    • K Kacee Giger

      4 errors - 'f's, santence, ther'are, and two errors (since there were three) The two cpians weren't playing against each other (at least not for all 11 games)

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      Josh Smith
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      'f's isn't an error. The f was just wrapped in quotes, to indicate the character F.

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      • R Raj Lal

        There are five 'f's in the next santence, and ther’are two errors in this one. "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." How many errors are there in the first sentence? Ok if you can't figure out this one try your hands on this Two cpians played eleven consecutive games of chess. None of games were drawn, Every game was completed Yet Both players won/lost same number of games as each other. puzzled ? How could this happen?

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        Jon Sagara
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        3: 1) santence 2) ther’are 3) "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." That's 6 'f's by my count.

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        • J Josh Smith

          >There are five 'f's in the next santence, and ther’are two errors in this one. >"It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." "santence" should be sentence "ther'are" should be there are The second sentence has 6 f's, not 5. -- modified at 14:19 Thursday 31st August, 2006 :sigh: thanks nish -- but it's 6 f's

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          Nish Nishant
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          Josh Smith wrote:

          The second sentence has 4 f's, not 5.

          It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life 5 'f's there. [edit]Blast! I missed the 6th 'f' in 'of' :doh:[/edit]

          Regards, Nish


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          • R Red Stateler

            4 errors. Error: There are five 'f's (there are 6) Error: in the next santence, (sentence misspelled) Error: and ther’are (there are) Error: two errors in this one. (There were 3 and now actually 4)


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            Nish Nishant
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            espeir wrote:

            Error: There are five 'f's (there are 6)

            It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life Ahhhhh ok :-)

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            • J Jon Sagara

              3: 1) santence 2) ther’are 3) "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." That's 6 'f's by my count.

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              Kacee Giger
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              So 4, since the first sentence said it had two errors.

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              • N Nish Nishant

                Josh Smith wrote:

                The second sentence has 4 f's, not 5.

                It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life 5 'f's there. [edit]Blast! I missed the 6th 'f' in 'of' :doh:[/edit]

                Regards, Nish


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                Josh Smith
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                What the deuce!? :-D me too

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                • J Jon Sagara

                  3: 1) santence 2) ther’are 3) "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." That's 6 'f's by my count.

                  Jon Sagara When I grow up, I'm changing my name to Joe Kickass! My Site | My Blog | My Articles

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                  Nish Nishant
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                  Jon Sagara wrote:

                  1. "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." That's 6 'f's by my count.

                  yes, so the "two errors" is the 4th error as there are 6 :-)

                  Regards, Nish


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                  • J Josh Smith

                    What the deuce!? :-D me too

                    :josh: My WPF Blog[^]

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                    Nish Nishant
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                    Josh Smith wrote:

                    What the deuce!?

                    I missed the 'f' in 'of', which I think you did too. But you missed one more 'f' since you counted only 4 - which was the other one you missed, Josh?

                    Regards, Nish


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                    • N Nish Nishant

                      Josh Smith wrote:

                      What the deuce!?

                      I missed the 'f' in 'of', which I think you did too. But you missed one more 'f' since you counted only 4 - which was the other one you missed, Josh?

                      Regards, Nish


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                      Josh Smith
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                      Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                      which was the other one you missed, Josh?

                      That's for me to know and you to die wondering... ;P

                      :josh: My WPF Blog[^]

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                      • J Josh Smith

                        Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                        which was the other one you missed, Josh?

                        That's for me to know and you to die wondering... ;P

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                        Nish Nishant
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                        Josh Smith wrote:

                        That's for me to know and you to die wondering...

                        :-D

                        Regards, Nish


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                        • N Nish Nishant

                          Josh Smith wrote:

                          The second sentence has 4 f's, not 5.

                          It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life 5 'f's there. [edit]Blast! I missed the 6th 'f' in 'of' :doh:[/edit]

                          Regards, Nish


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                          Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)

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                          Ashley van Gerven
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                          Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                          Blast! I missed the 6th 'f' in 'of'

                          That's probably because if you wrote it like it's pronounced it would be written as ov. Try counting any f's in a sentence and you'll invariably miss all all the "of" f's unless you really look for them :doh:

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                          • R Raj Lal

                            There are five 'f's in the next santence, and ther’are two errors in this one. "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." How many errors are there in the first sentence? Ok if you can't figure out this one try your hands on this Two cpians played eleven consecutive games of chess. None of games were drawn, Every game was completed Yet Both players won/lost same number of games as each other. puzzled ? How could this happen?

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                            Michael Bergman
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                            div>five 'f's

                            factual error, there are six. 2)

                            div>santence

                            Spelling error. 3)

                            div>santence, and

                            punctuation error 4 & 5)

                            div>ther’are

                            punctuation (no space between words/use of apostrophe) and spelling (ther') 6)

                            two errors in this one

                            factual error, there are six.

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                            • J Josh Smith

                              'f's isn't an error. The f was just wrapped in quotes, to indicate the character F.

                              :josh: My WPF Blog[^]

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                              Ashley van Gerven
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                              Josh Smith wrote:

                              'f's isn't an error.

                              Yeah but I think he's right about 4 errors - he's the only first one that seems to have noticed that "two errors" should be "four errors". Or is that the "mystery error" that you alluded to to Nish? (but you said 3 errors) :confused:

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                              • K Kacee Giger

                                So 4, since the first sentence said it had two errors.

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                                Jon Sagara
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                                :doh:

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                                • M Michael Bergman

                                  div>five 'f's

                                  factual error, there are six. 2)

                                  div>santence

                                  Spelling error. 3)

                                  div>santence, and

                                  punctuation error 4 & 5)

                                  div>ther’are

                                  punctuation (no space between words/use of apostrophe) and spelling (ther') 6)

                                  two errors in this one

                                  factual error, there are six.

                                  m.bergman

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                                  Michael Bergman wrote:

                                  1. div>santence, and punctuation error

                                  The comma is not a punctuation error. This is a compound sentence joined with the 'and' conjunction. Anytime that the sentence fragment after the conjunction contains both a subject and predicate (noun and verb) it can stand alone as a complete sentence in its own right. When that occurs, the comma is required before the conjunction. In the second part of the sentence, 'There' is the subject, and 'are' is the predicate.

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                                  • S StewBob

                                    Michael Bergman wrote:

                                    1. div>santence, and punctuation error

                                    The comma is not a punctuation error. This is a compound sentence joined with the 'and' conjunction. Anytime that the sentence fragment after the conjunction contains both a subject and predicate (noun and verb) it can stand alone as a complete sentence in its own right. When that occurs, the comma is required before the conjunction. In the second part of the sentence, 'There' is the subject, and 'are' is the predicate.

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                                    Before anyone asks, no, I'm not an English major. I'm just a little anal-retentive about grammar. :):)

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                                    • N Nish Nishant

                                      Josh Smith wrote:

                                      The second sentence has 4 f's, not 5.

                                      It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life 5 'f's there. [edit]Blast! I missed the 6th 'f' in 'of' :doh:[/edit]

                                      Regards, Nish


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                                      Polymorpher
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                                      LOL

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                                      • M Michael Bergman

                                        div>five 'f's

                                        factual error, there are six. 2)

                                        div>santence

                                        Spelling error. 3)

                                        div>santence, and

                                        punctuation error 4 & 5)

                                        div>ther’are

                                        punctuation (no space between words/use of apostrophe) and spelling (ther') 6)

                                        two errors in this one

                                        factual error, there are six.

                                        m.bergman

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                                        Raj Lal
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                                        Michael Bergman wrote:

                                        santence, and

                                        not an error actually it is a standard practise when ever you want to seperate set of things with comma the last one should be with "," and "and" thats actually a good english

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                                        • R Red Stateler

                                          4 errors. Error: There are five 'f's (there are 6) Error: in the next santence, (sentence misspelled) Error: and ther’are (there are) Error: two errors in this one. (There were 3 and now actually 4)


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                                          Raj Lal
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                                          espeir wrote:

                                          errors. Error: There are five 'f's (there are 6) Error: in the next santence, (sentence misspelled) Error: and ther’are (there are) Error: two errors in this one. (There were 3 and now actually 4)

                                          You got it all figured out :-D correctly cheers

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