Type of usage/accuracy.
The car drove a dream, perfect handling, sharp breaks, quiet engine.
Is the and before the last item always neccessary. Could you use a colon after dream instead.
Would this be classed as typical newspaper style headlines? Usually we use tells to go before something being said and says after something has been said.
Would the section after the comma be a fragment, it does not work as a dependent clause or an independent.
House ransacked in London had been a target for sometime, thug tells court as he describes how they broke in. (thug tells court what ?)
(say's thug to court).
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You will get better results if you post two unrelated questions like these as two separate posts. The missing "and" is a rhetorical device called brachylogia. " It suggests that there is more.
- You will get better results if you post two unrelated questions like these as two separate posts.
- The missing "and" is a rhetorical device called brachylogia.
- " It suggests that there is more.
- A colon is too dryly technical for that sentence, but I agree that the comma is too weak.
- " Right.
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You will get better results if you post two unrelated questions like these as two separate posts.
The missing "and" is a rhetorical device called brachylogia. It is not uncommon: "and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." It suggests that there is more. A colon is too dryly technical for that sentence, but I agree that the comma i
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