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Two grammatical mistakes in the GuardianUnlimited headline article

 
 
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Confident Romney hits the road after mixed response to presidential pitch
Mitt Romney visits Louisiana on first full day as official GOP nominee after 'workmanlike' speech to Republican convention


1)Reaction to the biggest speech of his political career – his address to the party convention in Tampa, Florida – was mixed, in large part because of a shambling warm-up performance by Oscar-winning actor Clint Eastwood. The actor disrupted the carefully choreographed convention schedule with with a surreal discussion with an empty chair representing Barack Obama.
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One "with" will be enough.

2)In his speech, Romney spoke about two of his biggest perceived weaknesses, his Mormonism, which is normally avoids for fear of offending Christian evangelicals, and his business career at Bain Capital, an investment group that closed American companies, resulting in job losses.

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"avoids" should be "avoided"

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@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
2)In his speech, Romney spoke about two of his biggest perceived weaknesses, his Mormonism, which is normally avoids for fear of offending Christian evangelicals, and his business career at Bain Capital, an investment group that closed American companies, resulting in job losses.

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"avoids" should be "avoided"


My guess is they meant to say:

"which he normally avoids"
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