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Monday, November 28, 2011

Here was the question:

What's wrong with this sentence? "Citrines whose colors have been produced by artificial means tend to have much more of an orange or reddish caste than those found in nature."

Nothing
9 (13%)
Punctuation
22 (33%)
Spelling
19 (29%)
Grammar
15 (23%)

Congratulations to 29% of you. The spelling of "caste" should have been "cast."

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