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Monday, June 14, 2010

Poll Results 91

Our question:

What's your reaction to this sentence? "I decided to write this book in the galleries of the National Museum of Prehistory."

It sounds fine to me.
8 (11%)
It sounds off to me but I'm not sure what is wrong.
17 (25%)
I laughed (a museum is a good place to write a book).
43 (63%)

Well, I was with the 63%. The sentence seems to say that the person wrote the book while he was in the museum. I highly doubt that. He was most likely in the museum when he had the light bulb of inspiration.






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