I saw the Sherlock Holmes movie this weekend (so-so), and was dismayed to see a spelling error in a headline of a newspaper in the movie. (Wow! That was a lot of prepositional phrases in a row!) Here's what it said:
"Sherlock Holmes Aides Police"
An "aide" is a person such as a nurse's aide or a political aide.
"To aid" is a verb: to help.
The Sherlock Holmes blunder is rectified with your terse explanation.
ReplyDeleteMay I ask if you could do the same with the first sentence of this post? Is it alright to put a comma before "and," and does the comma means the succeeding words form a complete sentence?
Sometimes commas separate two complete sentences as you suggest. Here the comma is optional. I guess I felt a short pause was in order. It would be fine to leave it out.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it's supposed to be "all right" instead of alright.
I love watching you go back and forth correcting each other. It's by far the most entertaining way for me to improve my grammar.
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