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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Criminal Sentence 545: Perpendicular, Not Parallel

From something I read:

"One spoke about religion, another about politics, and the last taught math in school."

There's something non-parallel here. Let's put everything in order:

"One spoke about religion, another discussed politics, and the last taught math in school."

2 comments:

Marilee Matheson said...

That sentence still sounds strange to me. It sounds like you're describing speakers at a meeting, so the last phrase doesn't fit.

The Sentence Sleuth said...

You're right. I was more concerned with parallelism than sense!