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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

[sic] usage

I am responding to a legal document titled, "FIRST REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS TO DEFENDANT" that should have been titled, "SECOND REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS"

I need to title the legal response to reflect that it is our response to what should have been titled "second request" and was not sure how to use the [sic]. Example, should I title it as follows: "DEFENDANT'S RESPONSE TO FIRST [sic, SECOND] REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS"

or "DEFENDANT'S RESPONSE TO SECOND [sic, FIRST] REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS"

or, can you make a better suggestion?
  

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As far as I know, it is [sic] without any explanation as to what is wrong. If you think your audience won't recognize the mistake, you can always mention it in the body of what you write.

  • As far as I know, it is [sic] without any explanation as to what is wrong.
  • If you think your audience won't recognize the mistake, you can always mention it in the body of what you write.
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As far as I know, it is [sic] without any explanation as to what is wrong. If you think your audience won't recognize the mistake, you can always mention it in the body of what you write.
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Thanks. That's what I thought too.

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