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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK j Universal Press Syndicate • A tidy English sentence is like a tidy dresser drawer. A place for everything, and everything in its place. When words and phrases get out of place, the consequences can be startling.
The Associated Press filed a story from Mobile last year. “Can homosexual couples legally get married in Alabama?" The AP answered its own question: “A court official in Mobile, armed with a 9-year-old attorney general’s opinion, said they can’t.”
It seems to me a fair surmise that the opinion, not the attorney general, was 9 years old. Something was just a tad out of place. In The Palm Beach Post last August, a reviewer found something a bit dated about ,“Trouble in Tahiti.” For example, there were those “wide men’s ties.” What the producer needed were skinny men’s ties. _ We have to watch where we put our adjectives. The Charleston . (S.C.) Post and Courier carried a ?! feature story about a woman who ; had a flair for baking. She decided to ; develop her own product line. “Be< ing the rabid dog lover that she is, she decided to venture into the dog : treat business.” Well, even rabid dogs need love.
Prepositional phrases give the , most trouble. They tend to wander off. The Portland Oregonian reported that an escaped convict came out second best in a run-in with po; lice: “SWAT team members shot Wall, who had been serving a sentence for driving with a suspended license before he broke into his wife’s house, in the left arm.”
In Eugene, Ore., The Register
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