Bad Grammar: Kellyrae and Sooj Win Immunity to the Finals

 

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Glory Elijah is a popular content creator who concentrates on Nigerian and African reality TV shows. She has over 300,000 subscribers on YouTube. This video discusses a topic from Big Brother Naija Season 9, themed: 'No Loose Guard.'





My Comments

The sentence "Kellyrae and Sooj wins immunity to the finals" is plagued with a couple of grammatical and contextual ambiguities. First, there is a subject-verb agreement problem: a plural subject requires a plural verb. "Kellyrae and Sooj” is a plural subject. “Win” is the plural verb that should follow it. Note, plural verbs do not end in “S.”

The phrase "immunity to the finals" might also be quite confusing, given that it has certain potential implications. Generally, the word "immunity" means protection against harm or exemption from something malicious. In medical discussions, immunity refers to resistance against disease, which here creates an unintended analogy. It sounds like Kellyrae and Sooj are being protected against the finals, making the finals something harmful that should be avoided, just like a disease.

Where the word "immunity" is used in competitive contexts, such as in reality shows, it most often refers to protection from elimination. A better phrasing could be: "Kellyrae and Sooj win immunity and move on to the finals" or "Kellyrae and Sooj win immunity and proceed to the finals."

This better communicates that they are progressing in the competition and not that they are being shielded from a contagious next round, which is not the case. 




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