Errors

I agree with you when you said this reading is a little more difficult to read than the previous ones. By just reading the first sentence I could tell that it wasn’t going to make that much sense to me, so I got out the questions and tried to answer them as best I could. When reading pp. 155-158 I noticed that he was trying to get the point across that some errors are more important than others. I also learned in these pages that even the people who write grammar books make mistakes. In these pages it shows examples of people breaking the grammar rules as they state the exact rule. I think he makes his point by doing this because obviously the rule isn’t important if you’re breaking it while you state it. Also, it shows that if you don’t know an error you’re obviously not going to spot it. I also think that Williams showed the evidence of grammarians violating their own rules because it shows that errors are going to happen regardless of who you are. The “game” that he talks about isn’t really a game it is more of a test. Williams planted errors throughout the paper to see if anyone noticed them. If you had found any then you should send them in to see what error was recognized the most. I think that William locates errors in the reader because if the reader never knew about a specific error than they would have never noticed it, which would have made it correct. What it comes down to in the end is that it all depends on who is reading your paper and what errors they are looking for. That is the way I interpreted this reading.