Not Your Gramma's Grammar

[Barbara Need]

Except that I took this to mean something like Jacob Rivera, 15, is
pictured near his apartment in the Bronx. He is receiving intensive
therapy as part of his sentence for assault.

Barbara

Barbara Need
UChicago

On 22 Feb 2008, at 9:34, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> "As part of his new sentence for assault, Jacob Rivera, 15,
> receives intensive therapy near his apartment in the Bronx."
>
>   Shorter too.
>
>   JL
>  ,
> "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> At 2/21/2008 11:32 PM, Doug Harris wrote:
>> That's reads considerably better -- easier -- than the original.
>> dh
>
> Please write the complete sentence, as one sentence, starting it
> with "Jacob Rivera, 15, who was convicted..." Including the apartment.
>
> Joel
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>
>> "Twice removed"? You have a problem with
>> "Jacob Rivera, 15, who was convicted..."
>> ?
>>
>> m a m
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Doug Harris
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A cut line (photo caption) on the front page of the NY/Region of
>>> today's
>>> NY Times:
>>>> Jacob Rivera, 15, near his apartment in the Bronx, who was
>>>> convicted of
>>> assault, receives intensive therapy as part of his new sentence.<
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>>> The topic of typos has arisen here again recently. Many such, as
>>> has been noted, can be excused by time and other pressures. It's
>>> not so easy, though, to 'justify' subject-object twice (by
>>> commas) removed
>>> disasters such as this one.
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