I’m having trouble getting a line like this to compile. I’ve tried the variations below, among others.
[code]Instead of doing something other than examining, listening to or searching with the creatures: say “asrgbvaswregewa”.
Instead of doing something other than examining, listening to, or searching with the creatures: say “asrgbvaswregewa”.
Instead of doing something other than examining, listening to, or searching the creatures: say “asrgbvaswregewa”.
Instead of doing something other than examining, listening to or searching the creatures: say “asrgbvaswregewa”.[/code]
Here is a sample error message:
Problem. You wrote ‘Instead of doing something other than examining, listening to, or searching the creatures’ , which seems to introduce a rule taking effect only if the action is ‘doing something other than examining, listening to, or searching the creatures’. But that did not make sense as a description of an action. This looks like a list of actions to avoid: ‘doing something other than examining’ was okay; ‘listening to’ was okay; ‘searching the creatures’ was okay; so I am unable to place this rule into any rulebook.
But if you use “taking” instead of “listening to,” it compiles:
Instead of doing something other than examining, taking or searching the creatures: say "asrgbvaswregewa".
Is the “to” throwing it off somehow?
The actual verbs I need to refer to are listening to, talking to (which I’ve added), and examining. At first I thought there was a problem with the new verb, but the error message is basically the same as the non-compiling examples above.
Does anyone have any suggestions?