Williams Error

This reading was indeed more difficult than the previous EBay story "All my life for Sale" by John Freyer. However, by focusing on the main points it helped me to understand what Joseph M. Williams was trying to explain. In Williams article I realized that errors are hard to decipher. There are exceptions for everyone and even famous writers make them. One of his main points was faulty parallelism. His example was taken from a popular handbook. This showed a great variation of errors and exceptions. Williams stated that "its the experience of the writer who created the error, and the experience of the teacher who catches it." Personally, I agree with that statement. Everyone learns different methods at their own schools. What my high school English teacher said is the correct way of doing something could possibly be wrong in the eyes of my college professors. He showed examples from E.B White, Fowler and Barzun. This showed that even professionals get mixed up. I think that the reason Williams showed errors violating his own rules was basically, to drive his point home. He was describing how the concept of errors is so broad, that most cannot decipher right from wrong. I found that this article by Williams was interesting because I completely agree with it. Errors are everywhere even in what we just read. It depends if an error catches you eye while reading or, if you personally feel they are wrong. There are so many grammar and usage errors I think that, people will never be able to narrow it down to correct and incorrect.