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The importance of sentence composition - AlphaDog - 07-29-2009
I was just reading an article on tomorrow's Suds Summit and did a double take on this portion of a sentence, "...sits down with Prof. Henry Louis Gates and the police sergeant who arrested him in an attempt to smooth over a racial furor."
Gee, I thought the arrest was what prompted the furor, but it says here the arrest was an attempt to smooth one over. Huh, talk about me having misunderstood the whole thing.
Re: The importance of sentence composition - silvarios - 07-29-2009
Ha.
Re: The importance of sentence composition - DP - 07-30-2009
silvarios wrote:No kidding.
Ha.
Re: The importance of sentence composition - richorlin - 07-30-2009
There should be a comma after "arrested him" and it will read correctly.
I guess the proofreader was laid off.
Re: The importance of sentence composition - graylocks - 07-30-2009
richorlin wrote:
There should be a comma after "arrested him" and it will read correctly.
I guess the proofreader was laid off.
not necessarily. times are tough and many departments are experiencing cut backs in their comma allocation budgets.
Re: The importance of sentence composition - N-OS X-tasy! - 07-30-2009
graylocks wrote:
[quote=richorlin]
There should be a comma after "arrested him" and it will read correctly.
I guess the proofreader was laid off.
not necessarily. times are tough and many departments are experiencing cut backs in their comma allocation budgets.
...as well as their proofreaders.
Re: The importance of sentence composition - silvarios - 07-30-2009
graylocks wrote: not necessarily. times are tough and many departments are experiencing cut backs in their comma allocation budgets.
Ha.
N-OS X-tasy! wrote: ...as well as their proofreaders.
And Ha.
Re: The importance of sentence composition - MartyStickle - 07-30-2009
The panda, eats shoots and leaves.
Re: The importance of sentence composition - graylocks - 07-30-2009
MartyStickle wrote:
The panda, eats shoots and leaves.
loved that book! i also loved diagramming sentences. sick, i know...
Re: The importance of sentence composition - decay - 07-30-2009
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