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Hi Everyone,
I keep seeing the following sentence pattern every day on the net. Every newspaper does this.
What do others think of the following sentence:
'The judge who sentenced him in absentia, he was not allowed to leave the main centre to appear in court.'
To me, the sentence should read as,
'The judge who sentenced him in absentia was not allowed to leave the main centre to appear in court.'
Why do so many online writers do this? I see it more and more everyday. ?
Even worse, the sentence suggests that it is 'the judge' who isn't allowed to leave, and not 'him'.
Thanks,
Miss Confused...
Top answer
Writers make mistakes if they are under a lot of pressure to publish.
- Writers make mistakes if they are under a lot of pressure to publish.
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Writers make mistakes if they are under a lot of pressure to publish.
0What you quote, which makes no apparent sense, appears to be a garbled rendition of this that I found online:
The judge who sentenced him in absentia – he was not allowed to leave the remand centre to appear in court – concluded that anyone who joked about Putin must stark, raving bonkers and acquitted him on grounds of mental infirmity.
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'The judge who sentenced him in absentia, he was not allowed to leave the main centre to appear in court.'
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