
28-Nov-2006, 08:59
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More questions about BBC grammar... It seems that BBC should hire me as their editor.... I found the following sentence in this article: BBC NEWS | Europe | Lone gunman clue in Greek murders Ballistics tests on cartridges found near the bodies all came from the same weapon. Have I gone completely mad, or the way this sentence is formed implies that the ballistic tests are the ones that came from the same weapon
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Which isn't of course entirely unheard of way of sentence structuring, but still...It would make a heck of a lot more sense (and it would have been much better grammar, IMHO) to rephrase it as : Ballistics tests on cartridges found near the bodies [revealed that they] all came from the same weapon. |