What is mistake in this sentence if blank space in between the word ''poor'' and ''contented'' ''The old man is poor contented''?
First sentence:The man is poor and contented. has no error.poor is an adjective to the noun manand is a conjunctioncontented is adjective to the noun man (similar to content)There is no syntactic error as both poor and contented are adjective qualities for the man in the sentence.The second sentence : The man is poor contented is syntactically correct as the poor is a quality of the adjective contented to negate it to mean 'not much' contented.