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found another way of seeing.  Through touch.  You need to explain that.  Then you illustrate with Frank McCourt.  Read this part.

Taplow

"Also Frank McCourt had many obstacles.  One of his obstacles was poverty and his father." 

Andrew

Poverty and his father.  Are those one thing?

Taplow

Two.  Two thing.

Andrew

Yes.  Two things.  Two obstacles.  You could have a separate paragraph for each.  So how can you change that?

Taplow

They  need overcome. 

Andrew

I mean your sentence. 

Taplow

Two of his obstacle was poverty and his father.

Andrew

Two of his obstacles were poverty and his father.

About now the headmaster needs to interrupt them and destroy what little hope (for a pension) and pride (for a dignified exit) Andrew Crocker Harris has managed to salvage up to that point.  But I need to put in what Andrew confides in Taplow--his earlier success with his songbook of new words to tunes in the public domain to help ESL students remember phrases and grammar structures.  In the play, Andrew Crocker-Harris tells about his writing, as a school boy just two years older than Taplow,  a translation of the Agamemnon in rhyming couplets.  I think I need to go back to when Taplow bursts out with "To dream the impossible dream."  I could also have Andrew mention it when Taplow has two subjects.  

10 Common Errors to Find and Correct

New words by Andrew Crocker Harris to Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”

1.       Check to see the verb and subject both are there but neither twice.

Example:  In the summer people they take trips and pay the price.

2.       Check to see the verb agreement, tenses and form are all correct.

Lately it was been too difficult for us two to connect.