What is wrong with this sentence?

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My daughter was asked to find what the grammar mistake is with the sentence below and neither she nor I can not find anything wrong with it. The sentence is:

"I felt bad. I shouldn't have said anything about the food."

Does anyone know what is wrong with this sentence? I guess I have forgotten what I learned....

Rommie · Accepted Answer

Either:

(1) I'm going completely mad, or
(2) There is nothing wrong with that pair of sentences.

Have the courage of your convictions. Tell teacher the extract is sound. (And if it turns out you were wrong, at least you will have learned something - in which case, please tell me, because I'd like to learn it too).

Just remember that whoever set this question is someone who can't count. (There are TWO sentences). This does not give them good credibiility even to start with.

Rommie
(going to feel very embarrassed if I've missed anything)

HERE ARE SOME POSSIBILITIES:
(1) This is intended to be one sentence, not two, in which case the error is the period after "bad", and the fix is to replace it with a dash.
(2) This is intended to be formal narrative, in which case the contraction is unwise - replace "shouldn't" with "should not".
(3) ??? -

Sorry - I can't think of any more.

Red Halibut · Answer

Rommie, there is another slim possibility. If the narrative is in the present tense then one should use "feel" rather than "felt". Having said that, those sentences are absolutely correct english in any way one can measure. As to the matter of "two equals one", I think that even if - which seems unlkely - we are wrong and there *** a grammatical error then we could quite rightly claim prior victory on the grounds of the poser's (as opposed to the poster's) innumeracy.

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