What is wrong with this sentence?

Question

Here's the sentence:
there are three things wrong with this sentence
What is wrong with it? I know there should be a capital T, and punctuation, but what else????

Answer 1

Ugh - it's a classic paradox.



There are two things grammatically: 1) no capital, and 2) no full stop.



The third error is semantic: that it wrongly describes itself, in that two things are wrong.



But there's your paradox, because if has a third error, then the statement is true, so it's not a third error, so it's false, making it a third error ... and so on.

Answer 2

I only see two things wrong with it. Capitalize the T and place a period at the end of the sentence.

Answer 3

Ok, I'm just taking a whim on this, but maybe it should be "that" instead of "this"? So, it would be read as, "There are three things wrong with that sentence." Or maybe it is "There are 3 things wrong with this sentence." I only add the second idea because I remember an English teacher would always tell us to just do numerals instead of writing it out. Good luck.

Answer 4

Grammatically, there is nothing else wrong with that sentence. The only thing that is wrong is the capitalization and punctuation.

Answer 5

There are three things wrong with this sentence.

I only see the capital T and the period at the end. The rest seems fine. I was hoping they used the wrong "there", but it is correct.

Sorry.

Answer 6

The third error is that the information it conveys is wrong. There are two errors: no capital T for "there" and no period at the end.