Today's example is so awful that I'm naming it the worst sentence of the year. It appeared in today's paper. Here is the background: A woman who was eight months pregnant was killed and another woman pretended the baby was hers. She was arrested for kidnapping. The medical examiner performed an autopsy on the woman who was pregnant, and the police are investigating the murder. Now here's what the reporter told us:
"The missing fetus was discovered during an autopsy."
This is the most ridiculous sentence! It claims that during the autopsy the fetus was found, when we know that the missing baby was found at the home of the woman pretending to be the mom. The baby was still missing after the autopsy was done.
The sentence was supposed to say that during the autopsy, the medical examiner discovered that there had been a fetus and that it was now missing.
I'm glad the baby, now in protective services, has been found unharmed, but I am dismayed at the reporter's lack of brains.
End of rant.
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