Sentence of the Week #25

[From Michelle Yeoman and Barbara Gastel:]

Editing Solution: Sentence of the Week #24

Special thanks to the people who posted responses last week.

As a reminder, here is Sentence of the Week #24:

The new budget cuts are quiet disturbing.

The error in this sentence is the word quiet, which should be quite. Thus, the corrected sentence reads as follows:

The new budget cuts are quite disturbing.

Most of us probably know the difference between quite and quiet. However, a spell-checker generally can’t tell when people typed one of these words but meant the other.

To help ensure that such typographical errors are corrected, remember to proofread in addition to using the spell-checker. Doing so can be quiet (oops, we meant quite) helpful.

And now, onward to this week’s sentence.

Sentence of the Week #25

Welcome to the newest installment in this series. 

Here is Sentence of the Week #25:

We should hire the applicant that has the most education.

This sentence contains 1 small word that should be changed. Please replace this word with the preferable word. Then submit the corrected sentence and any remarks as a comment on this post. 

We plan to provide the solution as a comment in about 2 days, as well as including it in the next Sentence of the Week post.