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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
My question to the OP would be have you noticed other strange English in that book?
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Nothing quite as jarring, no. No homophone errors, no glaring punctuation errors. Like so many modern era writers, he avoids using - or doesn't know how to use - the Past Perfect tense except in idiomatic phrases. And he's unaware of the difference between rise/raise and lie/lay. But that's hardly uncommon these days.
He does have an unfortunate tendency to drop prepositions and other short words, and he doesn't know how to properly build conditional sentences (e.g. using "If I would have known, I would have done it differently." instead of the correct "If I had known, I would have done it differently."). And those two are the only other things I've noticed that I encounter more frequently in his writing than is "normal".