Saturday, 19 April 2014

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 35

Dr Faustus offers this mangle, in which an apostrophe catastrophe is accompanied by a shift in focus that results in a numerical disconnect between the subject noun and its pronoun in the final sentence:

Link: Flavorwire, ‘Required Reading: Modern Political Memoirs’, 23 August, 2010
it’s for its; the letters … it

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