Avoiding Faulty Collective Ownership
Recollect the pop song from the 80s. Do you get it? It was about guy Chrysler that 'seats about twenty?'
The funny idea of packing twenty people into a car can help you explore a really common grammatical error. Here let’s catch the error,
'All teachers should think about this as they take their class.'
It seems to be difficult but soon you will be familiar to it.
Identifying Faulty Collective Ownership Words
The above sentence is indicating the wording that is used for several people instead of each.If you have common sense then you will never ever think about the case that a whole staff will be crowded around one class to teach. But our sentence from earlier said that all teachers will be taking their class.
In the sentence the word 'class' is singular. It means that there is only one class - even though we have a lot of teachers.
These errors are common only because these are easily spotted.