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Grammatical error on Jeopardy last night. The shame!

Alisande
8 years ago

Jeopardy made an error that happens to be one of my pet peeves (unfortunately for me because it's so common): the misuse of the word only. Last night the question was

The Proboscidea order only has one living relative today, this one.

Of course (of course!) it should have read has only, not only has.

This kind of error bothers me more when an action verb is involved. For example, if someone says, "I'm only eating one piece of pizza," I might think, You're only eating it? What else would you do with it? LOL



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