Eagle Eye for Grammar

My “eagle eye for grammar” was spotted. Now see the kinds of grammatical errors I catch.  Some content has been changed or omitted to protect the guilty.

  • The following excerpt from a daily devotional service to which I subscribe was delivered to my inbox like this:

Whatever deserves the highest esteem think about those things instead of focusing on your flaws focus on your qualities and seek to enhance them.

It’s ironic that I chose this sentence, but I focused on its flaws because I had to read it a few times to understand it.  With my changes in red, it reads:

Whatever deserves the highest esteem, think about those things. Instead of focusing on your flaws, focus on your qualities and seek to enhance them.