Assess the following statements and select the sample that illustrates an editing error.

A. Phoenix is an ideal place to live in the winter.

B. We have many favorite foods. Among the best are: pizza, wings and strawberries.

C. The best summer days are spent playing on the beach at the shore.

D. Lily was disappointed by the team's defeat. They think a better defense would have won the game.

B. We have many favorite foods. Among the best are: pizza, wings and strawberries.

Explanation:

The colon is unnecessary.

And, although the instructions ask for only one answer, I should point out that a beach and a shore are pretty much the same thing, so you could argue that using both words is redundant.

what makes a hero is someone who tries and acres and then to save people and it’s not their jobs to save them just a normal person that has no experts of saving people would jump in to action without it twice about doing it. me that’s the defection of a hero!

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.