Showing posts with label Misplaced Adjectival Clause. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Misplaced Adjectival Clause. Show all posts

Friday, 10 April 2015

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 175

From Unintended Saucy Humour comes an uncorrected typographical error in the penultimate line of this extract. Close by, an adjective is incorrectly being used as a noun, which is especially odd given that it is clearly understood as an adjective in the article’s title and that the noun form exists:

Link: Donald W. Katzner, ‘A Neoclassical Curmudgeon Looks at Heterodox Criticisms of Microeconomics’,  World Economic Review, 4 (2015), 63–75 (p. 64)
quiet for quite; neoclassical as noun

Sunday, 28 April 2013

Misplaced Adjectival Clause, # 1

Marc Greene has sent in a contribution which seems well worth quoting verbatim:
Here's a doozy of a misplaced adjectival clause that I found in the first paragraph of 'President's Message' in the February/March issue of Connecticut Lawyer, a glossy bi-monthly from the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA), Volume 23, No. 6, p. 4:
Although the CBA and some its sections or committees will be introducing and lobbying for enactment of certain legislation, far more often the CBA will be lobbying against the passage of bills introduced by various legislators, sometimes merely as a courtesy to their constituents, which are considered by the CBA to be either ill-conceived or poorly executed.
Seems like these these constituents are either bastards or ill-hung.