Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/30/2011 12:21 AM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>On 6/29/2011 1:47 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>A friend has questioned the following sentence I have crafted, as
>>being if not ungrammatical at least awkward:
>>
>>"It is clear from the above that he read issues of these newspapers
>>from throughout the year; these articles [that he has discussed] come
>>from every month."
>>
>>What say the prescriptivists on this list?  And as well, the free-thinkers?
>--
>
>Looks OK to me.
>
>What is supposed to be questionable about it?

My friend, not being a linguist, wasn't able to describe the
error.  She just said it sounded wrong -- which is good enough
evidence for me to hesitate.

Thanks, all.

Joel


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