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From: smr
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:34
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:34
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On 10/6/2012 12:43 AM, Mark Anderson wrote: > The headline on the Trib announcing the outcome of the Cards/Braves wild > card game was: > > "Cardinals overcome ugly delay, Braves to advance" > > From: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-cardinals- > beat-braves-in-nl-wildcard-game-marred-by-infield-fly-rule-call- > 20121005,0,3871782.story > > The way I read it I thought the Braves won the game and advanced. The > comma separates this sentence into two statements; Cardinals overcoming > an ugly delay and Braves to advance. In reality the Cardinals won the > game and advanced. In that context Braves represented just another in > the list of things the Cardinals had to overcome today and the to > advance was awarded to them. I agree that that headline is awful, but I would only interpret "Braves to advance" as its own thought if it followed a semicolon. The comma is there to indicate a separation of things related to the first clause, ie, things that were overcome. So, it's technically grammatically correct but still poorly written. -- smr
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