My first miss was due to me being distracted by my parents and not looking back at the passage to see if it was singular or plural My next miss was due to me not looking into the word after which makes the colon redundant My final miss was due to not reading the surrounding sentences to see if they were complete on their own or not I did more standard English conventions rather than my planned math for the day because i am in a bad mood, and could not get my head in the math game