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trudge to the beat of subject-predicate-object. They want to wake up their readers. Better the writers should have stayed in bed;
• From a Florida editor’s account of his first therapeutic massage: “Face down on the table, Colleen started on my head and then moved to my feet.”
• In Laurinburg, N.C., Indignant Reader complained to the weekly Exchange about local imperfections^,,. “On last Saturday while driving down East Vance Street, a tree limb fell to the ground along with live wires.”
• In Seattle in March, and editorial writer grumped about Gov. Mike Lowry’s insensitivity to charges of sexual harassment: “Sifting through the 51-page report by former press aide Susanne Albright, a key question emerges.”
Now, it is apparent that the key question wasn’t sifting through the pages, the tree limb wasn’t driving on East Vance Street, and it wasn’t Colleen who was lying prone on the table. I’m all in favor of varying sentence structure, and there’s nothing wrong with an introductory phrase or clause. The important thing is to make sure the clause has something solid to
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