Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:02:56 -0800, Egbert White did cat :
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:39:11 +0000, Frederick Williams
> <frederick.williams2@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> It's correct English in the sense that it parses grammatically okay, in
> the same sense that "I eat the window" would parse grammatically okay.
Still I have this feeling that your example doesn't strech enough to
reach the OP quoted sentence extents that I read more like:
"I eat the window, with rocks in glass" or
"I eat the window, with dogs of doom in the path where no one goes"
>
> It's bad English in that, although the intended meaning seems clear, the
> way the statement is worded doesn't accurately express that meaning. It
> seems reasonable to assume the writer meant the following
>
> | Roads and bridges into Washington will be closed to traffic, |
> and there will be sniffer dogs on the subway.
well put, I also think that it was the intended meaning, too bad that
he then used a word corrector and a systranslhater...
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