[Ads-l] Crash blossom or something else?

[victor steinbok]

Hmmm, actually, the suspect slipped away. The woman was a hostage along
with the children. So, "no possible misinterpretation"?

VS-)

On 12:10pm, Wed, Mar 2, 2016 Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Or an *accompanying*-circumstance for "with a ..."?=C2=A0 That is, four
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> p away: "A woman slips away with (accompanied by) a pursuit suspect
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>  2 young children."
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> Still seems far-fetched to me.
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> Joel
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> > On Mar 2, 2016, at 7:32 AM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> > I don't see a possible misinterpretation.(1) The woman is not the pu=3D
> > rsuit suspect since there's no comma after "woman". (2) I can't make =3D
> > any sense out of "Pursuit Suspect" as a noun-verb construct, or of
> "Holdi=
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> > 2 Young Children" as the object of a verb.
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> attendant-circumstance modifier plus main clause:
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> 'with a pursuit suspect holding 2 young children, a woman slips away...
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> > Pursuit Suspect Holding 2 Young Children, Woman Slips Away on Foot After
> > Hourslong Standoff in Newport Beach
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> that was in fact the first interpretation i got. and then was puzzled by
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> .=C2=A0 undone by the missing "and"arnold
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