How often do you read the outside of food containers while you’re eating or shopping, and notice a grammar error?

Please read below for the ones I’ve found, so far:

  • In this sentence, there is no “determiner” that is connecting the subject (“we”) and the noun (“size”). 

  • For example, the following sentence (with just a subject and noun) is not a correct sentence - “I am youngest one.”

  • We must add a determiner (for that previous example, it would be “the”) to the sentence, to make it a complete sentence - “I am the youngest one.” 

  • Therefore, the two best edits to the originally mentioned sentence are either “We are the actual size”, or “We’re the actual size.”

Error: We’re actual size!

Error: The sugar in figs can move over time to the surface, giving an off-white color.”

  • The text is a little displaced, and sounds awkward.  In it, we can see that there is a separation of the verb (“move”) and the preposition of movement (“to the surface”). 

  • “Over time” is more of an explanation of the moving sugar, and makes the most sense to have it after the movement of the sugar is already explained.

  • Therefore, the best edit to this sentence is: “The natural sugar in figs can move to the surface over time, giving an off-white color.

Error: For a fresher & cleaner mouth than brushing alone.”

  • Every predicate needs a subject and a verb.  Although the first predicate (for a fresher & cleaner mouth) has a subject (mouth), there is no verb. 

  • The second predicate (brushing alone) does have both a subject (the person/thing who is brushing) and a verb (brushing), but there is no complete connection between these two predicates in this sentence. 

  • It needs more of an establishment of a connection, which is why adding “rather than” in addition to adding a verb to the first predicate, it is now a complete sentence.

  • Therefore, the best edit to this sentence is: “Use this to get a fresher & cleaner mouth, rather than just brushing alone.

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