Editormum's Grammar Guru for Friday, April 11, 2008

Friday, April 11, 2008

Sloppy, Impossible Writing

I"m reading the online news this morning, and one of the stories presents me with the following two sentences... sentences which are so badly written that I wonder how the writer made it out of journalism school! Can you pinpoint the problems and fix them? Problem Sentence 1: A widow is suing... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by editormum at 7:12 AM Comments (2) (link)

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