[mea] Re: Are you ok with this sentence?
- From: cheri.frazer@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:18:58 -0600
I'll second that!
From:
Arden Ogg <acogg@xxxxxxx>
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Date:
2012-01-12 04:16 PM
Subject:
[mea] Re: Are you ok with this sentence?
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Where's the like button, Karen?
...Arden
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Karen McElrea <karenmcelrea@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I would object to a sentence of that construction, which I believe are
incorrect in any context.
To: mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mea] Are you ok with this sentence?
From: cheri.frazer@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:32:53 -0600
"Burke tore a vertebral artery, which are located in the neck and supply
blood to the brainstem ? the back part of the brain which controls
consciousness."
(From
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/skiing/story/2012/01/12/sp-burke-skiing-injury.html
)
Would you consider that construction perfectly ok, a colloquialism /
grammatical shortcut, or would you consider it wrong no matter what?
Just curious.
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