After quoting “Khalid traveled,” the narrator adds “Amr arrived.” What can a misplaced conjunction or quotation boundary cause?

Supplementary Practice 7: Editing Expressions, Weighing Context and Rhetorical Critique

• Past tense automatically becomes imperfect
• “Amr” necessarily becomes a subject noun
• The two reports necessarily become synonymous
• The narrator’s report about Amr may falsely be attributed to the quoted speaker