Wednesday, 4 March 2015

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 73

John Holloway comments: ‘The beer and wine at the Bolingbroke (Swindon) are so polite!’


The substitute of compliment for complement is not the only confusion. The final remark should either be connected to the previous one (precisely as in the earlier coda, ‘all freshly prepared’) or supplied with an active verb (‘is’?) so it can stand as a complete sentence. Punctuation is a problem: the comma after ‘includes’ is superfluous, and would be better placed after ‘sauce’ since, as it stands, the last offering in the list seems to be an unusual surf-and-turf dish. 
complimented for complemented

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