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Post by bandit on May 14, 2015 12:17:22 GMT -5
The sentence confused me because "nobody is fond of have cats" sounds like a separate sentence in itself. Although if it was a separate sentence the grammar would be incorrect, which makes it all even more confusing. I guess it's kind of like a garden path sentence.
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Post by B. on May 14, 2015 16:08:57 GMT -5
Well maybe we all don't have the same gift Burn SLAAAAAM? Slam.
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Post by braveowl on May 14, 2015 20:15:07 GMT -5
I thought that it should read....... "Neither of us was fond of the woman who ran Partial Foods, but like lots of people, nobody is fond of having sick cats."
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Post by Dante on May 15, 2015 5:47:28 GMT -5
I see. I think that, if you were to make an edit that preserved the genuine meaning of the sentence whilst making it clearer, E.F.'s would be the one, but I think it's a legitimate omission in grammatical English. I don't think the intention is to genuinely confuse, but it is to be obtuse. Sentences that don't go the way you expect them to are funny. To me, anyway.
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Post by braveowl on May 17, 2015 17:26:37 GMT -5
uh....of course
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