Re: ambiugous sentences

Subject: Re: ambiugous sentences
From: "Diane Evans" <diane_evans -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 17:25:08 +0000


"The horse run past the barn fell."

And for little old me, who was raised in a logging community, this appeared to be an incomplete sentence with no verbs...

The "horse run" located beyond the "barn fell".

fell: The timber cut down in one season.

Diane Evans
Technical Writer

Washington State Coordinator, Tombstone Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/washing.html
Oregon State Coordinator, Tombstone Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/oregon.html


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