When Ivana returned to her homeland

[Bassim]

Would you please correct the mistakes in my sentence?

When Ivana returned to her homeland after more then 30 years living abroad, she was appalled by the level of ignorance, the lack of culture, illiteracy and moral decay.

 

[Rover_KE]

Just find your one simple spelling mistake.

 

[Bassim]

I have read the above sentence over and over, but I cannot spot the mistake.

 

[teechar]

It's in the first ten words. ;-)

 

[Bassim]

It should be "than."

 

[Bassim]

These mistakes happen when I am more concentrated on the choice of the proper words and grammar than spelling. My mind functions sometimes as if it is programmed to see certain kinds of mistakes and simply ignore others.

 

[emsr2d2]

Would you please correct the mistakes in my sentence?

When Ivana returned to her homeland after more then 30 years living abroad, she was appalled by the level of ignorance, the lack of culture, illiteracy and moral decay.

Am I the only person that read the end as "a lack of culture, (a lack of) illiteracy and (a lack of) moral decay"?

I would reorder them to "... she was appalled by the levels​ of ignorance, illiteracy and moral decay, and the lack of culture".

 

[GoesStation]

Am I the only person that read the end as "a lack of culture, (a lack of) illiteracy and (a lack of) moral decay"?

I would reorder them to "... she was appalled by the levels​ of ignorance, illiteracy and moral decay, and the lack of culture".

I noticed that parallelism error too, and started to write a reply pointing it out. Unfortunately I soon got bogged down in trying to explain the problem and gave up.