<p>Just to confirm...</p>
<p>"I have gone to only one football game after I graduated from high school."</p>
<p>The error occurs at "after," which should be replaced by "since."</p>
<p>"The radio station received the most number of calls from listeners on the evening it aired a discussion of the music of Aretha Franklin."</p>
<p>The error occurs at "the most number of calls." It is not clear what the number of calls is being compared to. "most" should be replaced by "largest."</p>
<p>Are these ISE questions?</p>
<p>ISE? Identify sentence error? If by that you mean the ones with parts of the sentence underlined, yes. I was too lazy to show the underlined parts but I’ll do that if it helps.</p>
<p>“I have gone to only one football game after I graduated from high school.”</p>
<p>“The radio station received the most number of calls from listeners on the evening it aired a discussion of the music of Aretha Franklin.”</p>
<p>Are the answers you posted the correct answers? These two questions are pretty tricky, but I’ll take a crack at it (I’m assuming these are CB questions). </p>
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<li>I think after is the problem. I think the tenses don’t agree gone–> after. If not, it’s no error. </li>
<li>Should be no error.</li>
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<p>Yeah these are CB questions and the answers I posted are correct.</p>
<p>We agree on #1. </p>
<p>I’m still unclear on #2. I don’t think my original explanation is right.</p>
<p>We debated about the second question in our prep class – I think the error is in that there is nothing to compare it to.</p>
<p>I’m not sure though. They seem like really weird questions to me still.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s weird… a couple guesses:</p>
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<li>number is redundant. Get rid of “number” and “of” </li>
<li>Comparison error, as you said. Still, I get the feeling that if the CB wanted to test a comparison, it would say “more” instead of “most.” Could be changed to “a large number.” “Largest” would not work, because is is still saying that the number is most large.</li>
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<p>The word “most” cannot be used to modify “number.” It would be correct to say either “the most calls” or “the largest number of calls.” The reference of the comparison is implicit: it is the number of calls received on other evenings, when the station had not aired a discussion of the music of Aretha Franklin. It is correct to worry about indefinite references and indefinite comparisons, but it’s possible to overdo that concern, even from CB’s point of view.</p>
<p>^Ah… it was so simple X_X</p>
<p>Thanks for the help</p>