Round archive · September 9, 2026
A mountain trail above the treeline
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We finally reached the barren ridge where the scattered pine trees ended entirely. My freindfriend pointed toward the distant summit, which looked deceptively close in the thin air. We had drankhad drunk all our water during the steep climb through the lower valley. We thought the hardest part was over, but infactin fact the rocky path only grew steeper. We noticed that there was threethere were three markers painted on the boulders ahead to guide us. A cold wind swept across the exposed granite, chilling us despite the bright afternoon sun. We still had twenty onetwenty-one minutes of daylight left to conquer the final rocky ascent.
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The traps in this round
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freind →friend
Remember the standard rule: i before e in the word 'friend'.
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had drank →had drunk
The past participle of the verb 'drink' is 'drunk', used here with the auxiliary 'had'.
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infact →in fact
The common expression 'in fact' is always written as two separate words.
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there was three →there were three
The verb must agree with the plural subject 'three markers' that follows it.
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twenty one →twenty-one
Compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine always take a hyphen.