🦋 A good referencing mistake, one you can learn from 🦋

There are bad mistakes and good mistakes.

Bad mistakes are mistakes you just keep making despite countless corrections. For example, "a big number of people" or "the least amount of money."

Good mistakes are ones you can learn from. Here is a good mistake - a beautiful one - made by a student. It is very subtle, though. Will you even notice it?

📝 "As people’s desire to stay abreast of current affairs is increasing, they can easily do so by exploiting a wide range of internet sources."

The referencing here doesn't work because "they" is in the nominative case, but "people's" is in the possessive case. You can't use a possessive noun as an antecedent for a nominative pronoun.

You might also encounter the term "implied noun." In "people’s desire," the noun "people" is an implied noun, while "desire" is the stated one. Pronouns can only refer to stated nouns.

📝 My fix for the sentence above: "People increasingly want to stay abreast of current affairs, which they can easily do by exploiting a wide range of internet sources."

Many different fixes are possible. Feel free to offer one in the comments.