Saturday, June 01, 2013

For Mom

The New York Times demonstrates impeccable grammar.

The table needed stitches!

4 comments:

Dad said...

To those who say grammar and spelling are unimportant, I say:

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Mom said...

"Impeccable grammar" and "the New York Times" don't belong together as much as one might think! (But it's always scary to write grammar commentary because of the 99.9% probability that the grammar critic will write something ungrammatical.) I found several howlers in that article in addition to the injured table. For instance: the incredibly long and awkward first sentence has a tense error. Removing most of the verbiage to reveal the problem: "A man who was killed . . . had . . . ran at [the agent] with a metal pole before being shot" It's "had run," not "had ran" -- or leave out the "had" so that the verbs "knocked" and "ran" are parallel.

And there's more! But I'll spare you. :-)

Laura said...

My favorite part is that the article is still up in full without any corrections.

Luke Murphy said...

And it was co-authored! Two heads are not better than one.