Summary
AS EXPERIENCED WRITERS know all too well, their world abounds with goblins, elves, imps and boogeymen of high and low degree. They creep into subordinate clauses. They feed upon the most innocent phrases. And alas, they wind up in print.
Two or three years ago (the clipping isn't dated), The Denver Post covered an ugly murder. "Sources said police will try to show that Watkins was in the back seat of the car and fired four shots from a revolver that had pulled alongside Adams as she drove her BMW along Charlotte Street." The reporter did not say whether the revolver had an operator's license.See the full content of this document
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Writers Must Beware of Mangles, Dangles
The Wall Street Journal carried a profile on Sanjiv Sidhu, the phenomenally successful president of i2 Technologies. In 1996, during a sojourn in Maui, the gentleman developed a pas...
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