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Merryyun23@gmail.com Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Who gives a lecture in the first sentence?
Who is the subject of the verb "give" in the first sentence of this paragraph? I or the master?
A few years ago, I visited the master of Swiss typographic design, Wolfgang Weingart, in Maine to give a lecture for his then regular summer course. I marveled at Weingart’s ability to give the exact same introductory lecture each year. I thought to myself, “Doesn’t he get bored?” Saying the same thing over and over had no value in my mind, and I honestly began to think less of the Master. Yet it was upon maybe the third visit that I realized how although Weingart was saying the exact same thing, he was saying it simpler each time he said it. Through focusing on the basics of basics, he was able to reduce everything that he knew to the concentrated essence of what he wished to convey.
A few years ago, I visited the master of Swiss typographic design, Wolfgang Weingart, in Maine to give a lecture for his then regular summer course. I marveled at Weingart’s ability to give the exact same introductory lecture each year. I thought to myself, “Doesn’t he get bored?” Saying the same thing over and over had no value in my mind, and I honestly began to think less of the Master. Yet it was upon maybe the third visit that I realized how although Weingart was saying the exact same thing, he was saying it simpler each time he said it. Through focusing on the basics of basics, he was able to reduce everything that he knew to the concentrated essence of what he wished to convey.
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I In view of what follows, it seems nonsensical, but that's what it is. It would make more sense with "hear a lecture". CJ
- I In view of what follows, it seems nonsensical, but that's what it is.
- It would make more sense with "hear a lecture".
- CJ
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In view of what follows, it seems nonsensical, but that's what it is.
It would make more sense with "hear a lecture".
CJ
In view of what follows, it seems nonsensical, but that's what it is.
It would make more sense with "hear a lecture".
CJ
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enoonmaster ... (who was) in Maine ....Ah! So you see these as quite different?
A few years ago I visited Wolfgang Weingart in Maine to give a lecture for his summer course.
A few years ago I visited Wolfgang Weingart, in Maine to give a lecture for his summer course.
Amazing what a comma can do.
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CalifJimAmazing what a comma can do.Indeed. There is the story of the life-saving comma. The courtiere, her paramour condemned to death, moved a comma in the death sentence and saved his life: "Pardon, impossible to be executed now."
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