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Name: Anita Manoh Anak Awal
Matric no.: 173967 Group: 29
TOPIC: Subject-verb Agreement
Find and correct six errors in subject-verb agreement in the following paragraph.
Disability in Sports Media 1According to Auslander and Gold (1999), the media is the key reason for the negative images and ideas with regard to people with disabilities. 2Disability have not been an area that the media has felt obligated to cover because media representatives and their audience often do not know that disability sports exists or even consider it authentic. 3In fact, some people seems to think that disability sports are not legitimate sports. 4DePauw (1997) claims that people with disabilities continues to be excluded from sports because they fail to meet the societal "norm" of physicality. 5Athletes with disabilities feel the only time they are mentioned in the mainstream media is when the media wants to perceive them in a stereotypical way.
7Hardin and Hardin (2004) conducted several studies using male wheelchair basketball players. 8In these studies, the researchers concluded that the majority of the athletes are desensitized to the way that the media ignores athletes with disabilities. 9According to these studies, all the athletes enjoys mainstream media as well as disability media. 10They use the mainstream media to gain socialisation with others, learn more about able-bodied sports and to find able-bodied sports role models (Hardin & Hardin, 2003; Hardin & Hardin, 2004). 11They also like the disability media such as Sports n' Spokes because it allow them to see other athletes with disabilities participating in a wide variety of sports. 12Many athletes with disabilities would like to see media coverage focus on the influential elements of their sport, but they does not blame this entirely on the media. 13They just hope one day their athletic accomplishments will
Matric no.: 173967 Group: 29
TOPIC: Subject-verb Agreement
Find and correct six errors in subject-verb agreement in the following paragraph.
Disability in Sports Media 1According to Auslander and Gold (1999), the media is the key reason for the negative images and ideas with regard to people with disabilities. 2Disability have not been an area that the media has felt obligated to cover because media representatives and their audience often do not know that disability sports exists or even consider it authentic. 3In fact, some people seems to think that disability sports are not legitimate sports. 4DePauw (1997) claims that people with disabilities continues to be excluded from sports because they fail to meet the societal "norm" of physicality. 5Athletes with disabilities feel the only time they are mentioned in the mainstream media is when the media wants to perceive them in a stereotypical way.
7Hardin and Hardin (2004) conducted several studies using male wheelchair basketball players. 8In these studies, the researchers concluded that the majority of the athletes are desensitized to the way that the media ignores athletes with disabilities. 9According to these studies, all the athletes enjoys mainstream media as well as disability media. 10They use the mainstream media to gain socialisation with others, learn more about able-bodied sports and to find able-bodied sports role models (Hardin & Hardin, 2003; Hardin & Hardin, 2004). 11They also like the disability media such as Sports n' Spokes because it allow them to see other athletes with disabilities participating in a wide variety of sports. 12Many athletes with disabilities would like to see media coverage focus on the influential elements of their sport, but they does not blame this entirely on the media. 13They just hope one day their athletic accomplishments will