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What's wrong with this sentence?

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MsAwesomeDragon · 15/09/2019 20:25

This is part of dd2s homework. She needs to identify three errors in this sentence, but she (and I) can only find 2.

The police managed to seize the robber and return Ellies handbag

OP posts:
IveGotBillsTheyreMultiplying · 18/09/2019 19:07

Nouns need capitals in German and some other languages.

StealthPolarBear · 18/09/2019 22:06

Op I love your attitude
Or should that be
I love, you're Attitude

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 18/09/2019 22:14

The comma is incorrect.

But am just delighted by the capital letter for Handbag Grin

ThanksForYourHelp · 18/09/2019 22:18

The police managed not only to seize the robber but also to return Ellie's handbag.

Apileofballyhoo · 19/09/2019 00:55

Intrigued by Languages that use capital Letters for some Nouns.

starfishmummy · 19/09/2019 01:00

Police
Ellie's
Full stop at the end.

Three

daisypond · 19/09/2019 05:45

For goodness’ sake, police does not have an initial capital P. It’s in the dictionary, so it’s easy to check how it is written.

PancakeAndKeith · 19/09/2019 06:17

All nouns and pronouns used to have capital letters in English.
Then it was decided to stop that and it was seen as being a bit rude to take the capital from God’s and Jesus’ pronouns which is why they are still capitalised.

StealthPolarBear · 19/09/2019 06:24

And Sunderland. And Boris Johnson :o

bubblebar · 19/09/2019 07:02

What @starfishmummy said

IveGotBillsTheyreMultiplying · 19/09/2019 07:47

More Info for for further StudyGrin

The various languages and dialects in the High German family, including Standard German and Luxembourgish, are the only major languages using the Latin alphabet in which all nouns are generally capitalized. This was also practiced in other Germanic languages (mainly due to German influence):
â—¦ In German, all nouns are capitalized.[4]
â—¦ Danish, before the spelling reform of 1948
â—¦ Swedish, during the 17th and 18th centuries[5]
â—¦ English, during the 17th and 18th century[6] (as in Gulliver's Travelss^, and most of the original 1787 United States Constitution)
â—¦ Some regional languages, such as Saterland Frisian

beanaseireann · 22/09/2019 15:32

I always think the seasons shoukd be capitalised but apparently they're not.
Why ?

julainsmith · 07/01/2020 18:31

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