Re: ambiguous sentences

Subject: Re: ambiguous sentences
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:32:58 -0400




Writing "the horse raced past the barn fell" seems to be an incomplete
thought, any way you slice it. I would say that you have two thoughts,
"the horse was raced past the barn" and "the horse fell," and that by
writing "the horse raced past the barn fell" is a failure to integrated
those two thoughts into one sentence. I cannot see this any other way.
Really, I just don't get it.

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BG says:

How about this?

"The technical writer wrung out from too much work slumped in his
chair."

In this case I'm specifying *which* technical writer slumped in his
chair, just as the other sentence is specifying *which horse* (the one
that was "run past the barn").

But don't worry. I didn't know that a horse run has structures in it.

Bonnie Granat
http://www.editors-writers.info





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References:
RE: ambiguous sentences: From: Sean Brierley

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