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No, if you read the sentence it says the suspect shot the victim 5 times and then the suspect crashed her car and died.

English is a dying language...


8 posted on 11/16/2010 7:04:15 PM PST by freedumb2003 (In case you don't know, everything I post is IMHO -- YOU JACKWAGON!)
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To: freedumb2003

Looked ok to me


18 posted on 11/16/2010 7:19:29 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
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To: freedumb2003
Before one can write a coherent sentence, one needs to know how to think coherently. The sentence, as written, could mean either a) the perp crashed and died, after shooting the victim, or b) the victim was shot, then she crashed her car and died, but there was no logical connection. In other words, the victim was about to crash anyway, and the shooting had nothing to do with it.

If the writer had bothered to rework the sentence, he would have said "Police are searching for the suspect who shot a well-known Hollywood publicist five times, causing her to crash her Mercedes-Benz in a Beverly Hills neighborhood." Since the writer doesn't state whether she died at the scene, or whether she died from the bullet wounds or the crash, I can't complete that part of it.

23 posted on 11/16/2010 7:26:08 PM PST by giotto
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To: freedumb2003

“No, if you read the sentence it says the suspect shot the victim 5 times and then the suspect crashed her car and died.

English is a dying language...”

How about:
“No, if you read the sentence it says the suspect shot the victim 5 times and then the suspect crashed her car and died.

Journalism is a dying occupation...


35 posted on 11/16/2010 8:46:32 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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