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Saturday, February 02, 2008

Amusing Grammar Slip

Mediabistro, a paywalled website for writers, recently posted the transcript of a seminar on grammar. I read through it — it’s all stuff I know, unfortunately — and noticed this sentence in the section on pronoun agreement: “The next example is probably my favorite because I didn't make it up. I get silly text messages from Virgin Mobile for their promotional crap, and it had a lot of errors in it. ”

I know it’s just a transcript. It may even be what the teacher said. But that particular sentence in that particular section tickled me.

1 Comments:

At 8:56 AM, Blogger johnny phenothiazine said...

I think "it" in "it had a lot of errors in it" reaches back into the previous sentence for its referent, "The next example". "Silly text messages" is part of an aside explaining where the speaker got "it".

 

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