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From: Frederick Williams <frederick.williams2@tesco.net>
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Subject: Is this correct English?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:39:11 +0000
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Seen here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/obama_inauguration/7837193.stm:
Roads and bridges into Washington will be closed to traffic,
with sniffer dogs on the subway.
Is that correct English? I see no connection between what occurs before
the comma and what occurs after.
--
But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it.
It's all a matter of training.
--Lord Peter Wimsey in Dorothy L Sayers' _Have His Carcase_
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