You are talking to your mother, telling her that you have been working hard and that you need to e-mail a completed assignment to your professor. You accidentally say, "I have to e-mail my professor to my assignment." This is an error of ______.

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This is an example of an exchange error, where two elements (in this case, the objects of the sentence) are swapped in the speaker's utterance.

You Are Talking to Your Mother, Telling Her That You