This sentence from a TV Squad question-and-answer with the author of a book about "American Idol" made me cringe and stopped me hard:

We all watched and saw that there just was not a great chemistry at all between he and Ryan Seacrest, but do you think it's also fair to say that no one was going to get in the way of the mogul-in-the-making that Seacrest has proven himself to be?

A reader left a message for an editor last week, saying that we had made a grammar error in the first sentence of the lead story of the Weekend section. Here is the sentence:

Last weekend, I, with the help of several friends, went on an eating tour of Durham.

Today's quiz contains various grammar, usage, punctuation or spelling problems. Try the quiz and leave a comment if you wish. I've put no time limit on the quiz, which has the usual five parts. 

See my earlier post for a review of a book that plays a part in one of the quiz answers today.

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