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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

>> If you listen to it again, you’ll notice that BHO flubbed first when he interrupted Roberts in mid phrase.

That is true.

>> What I found interesting today is to hear some grammar police on FR point out that in actuality the Constitution used bad grammar in putting “faithfully” at the start of the phrase, and that Roberts’ mistake in moving it to the end was actually the grammatically correct way to say it!

They were wrong. The modifier “faithfully” describes the execution, and thus should attach to the word “execute” as written. Throwing a modifier in at the end of a sentence is inelegant — particularly when it modifies/describes a word that appeared 9-words earlier.

SnakeDoc


110 posted on 01/20/2009 9:12:50 PM PST by SnakeDoctor ("You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas." -- David Crockett)
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To: SnakeDoctor

As spoken by Roberts, ‘faithfully’ modifies the phrase ‘that I will execute the Office of President of the United States’ ... which is exactly what the affirmative action poseur is doing.


121 posted on 01/20/2009 9:37:35 PM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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