Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3 AIL 0216 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Why "Still" Is the Costliest Miss
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The idea
Read as nevertheless, the line still makes grammatical sense, so nothing warns you. That is what makes it expensive. A wrong sense that breaks the sentence gets caught by the substitution test. A wrong sense that leaves a readable sentence passes the test and takes the mark.
In practice
A readable error is the dangerous one.
Where people slip
Substitution catches breakage, not plausibility.
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