What's wrong with this? [Narrator thinks to self about baby names] "I like Emma. And Ella. And Hannah." [Second character says] "Does every baby name have to be a palindrome?"
Grammar | 21 (44%) |
Spelling | 3 (6%) |
Word use | 15 (31%) |
Nothing | 8 (17%) |
Congratulations to 31% of you. The source of the error is the word "palindrome," a word that is spelled the same both forwards and backwards. "Hannah" is an example, but "Emma" and "Ella" are not palindromes.
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My initial response was that the quote marks in the first utterance were wrong. If the narrator were thinking to himself, then I would have expected it to have been in italics, but then when the second character responded (though incorrectly), I realised that the narrator wasn't so much thinking to himself; rather, he was talking to himself (and the second character butted in, right?).
Well, the novel was from Character A's point of view, so she was thinking to herself, and then Character B spoke out loud.
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