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Sun 94 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Nouns

Direction: Three of the five underlined words contain an error related to nouns.

The Environmental Protection Agent was created by Congress in 1070 to replace fifteen federal agencies that previously were responsibility for enforcing the legals that regulate environmental pollution.

My suggestions:

Agent--> Agency

responsibility-> responsible

legals--> legalities ?????

Please correct my mistakes. thanks a lot.
  

Top answer

legals--> laws

  • legals--> laws
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Can't I say the noun form of legal, that is , legalities? If not, why?
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My new hat doesn't fit.
My new head cover doesn't fit.

The first sentence is right; the second sentence is wrong. It is the same for law and legalities. Legality is the wrong word - look it up in your dictionary.

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