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A bad sentence

What excellent timing! I have a spate of proofreading coming up, and I’m going to try to work this sentence in somewhere:

[T]o correct a bad sentence satisfactorily is not always possible; it should never have existed, that is all that can be said.

From The King’s English, spotted by Maud Newton.

This was written by tikitu. Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010, at 12:21 pm. Tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Kimberley wrote:

    Oh yes. That perfectly sums up how I felt about an essay I proofread this week.

    Friday, August 20, 2010 at 2:34 pm | Permalink
  2. tikitu wrote:

    The whole essay? That’s harsh, man.

    Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 1:04 pm | Permalink