#proof-reading fail

LOOK ALERT: Because it’s so easy to be distracted when you are in a hurry, it always pays to re-read what you have typed to pick up any missing or incorrect words. Read the above quote and see if you can suggest a solution.

LOOK ALERT: Now that is a shocking error, confusing “elective” with “electric”. Where was the proof-reading prior to publication?

LOOK ALERT: Another example of an absence of proof-reading by the writer and anyone else who processed this copy before publication. It is such a small word, “of”, and it is just one letter from “on”, but that is no excuse for not picking up and correcting the error. 

LOOK ALERT: What’s the use of spelling a difficult name correctly and then not checking the very next word? Or was this an effort at speech-to-text, complete with a mispronunciation? Either way, the mistake should have been picked up before it was published.

LOOK ALERT: Rookie error, nonetheless unforgivable, to type “there” when you mean “their”.

LOOK ALERT: Can you spot the typo, an incorrect verb of attribution, tenses that do not agree and superfluous words? This is a sign of someone rushing to file and no one checking what has been written. To tidy this sentence up: While he remained hopeful he’d make it to Wimbledon in the middle of the year, he said his body might not hold out. 

LOOK ALERT: You were aware of the error, were you not? Clearly the news producer was not.