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In keeping with the opening sentence's invocation of Graham Greene, the author's terse, resonant prose hides more than it reveals.
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However, what bothers me is when people stick curse words into sentences haphazardly when they make absolutely no sense in the sentence's context.
Online Distribution of Red Band Trailers Draws Controversy | /Film 2010
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For teaching me that the Oxford comma resolves ambiguity, I'd like to thank my parents, Sinead O'Connor and the Pope, said Twitter user Aaron Suggs @ktheory, deftly illustrating the potential damage that can be caused to a sentence's meaning.
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Several times Diaz used the wrong intonation for the sentence's structure and appeared to be unsure of the meaning of her words.
Richard Grenell: Allred's Story Falls Apart During Fox News Interview Richard Grenell 2010
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Several times Diaz used the wrong intonation for the sentence's structure and appeared to be unsure of the meaning of her words.
Richard Grenell: Allred's Story Falls Apart During Fox News Interview Richard Grenell 2010
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Far from being an exercise in drudgery, the reshuffling of a sentence's parts is much easier with a computer's cutting and pasting than it ever was in JMR's classroom.
A Diagram for Graceful Prose Walter R. Borneman 2011
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For teaching me that the Oxford comma resolves ambiguity, I'd like to thank my parents, Sinead O'Connor and the Pope, said Twitter user Aaron Suggs @ktheory, deftly illustrating the potential damage that can be caused to a sentence's meaning.
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It also doesn't sound as good as Ishmael, whose two gentler stresses balance out the sentence's strikingly stressed first word.
The Sweetest Sounds I Ever Read Meghan O'Rourke 2011
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Several times Diaz used the wrong intonation for the sentence's structure and appeared to be unsure of the meaning of her words.
Richard Grenell: Allred's Story Falls Apart During Fox News Interview Richard Grenell 2010
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It's possible, if unlikely, that "he" in the third line is the sentence's subject, and that "he wanted out of the room" means he wanted to get out of it.
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