Monday, February 4, 2008

Faulty sentence



THE front page of the Metro section of The Star of May 12 reported, “Ipoh has a new landmark in the form of a 23.5m-tall statue of Lord Buddha. Built against the backdrop of the Sleeping Buddha Mountain in Tambun, a ceremony will be held next week to consecrate the statue.”
The latter sentence needs to be rewritten as “Built against the backdrop of the Sleeping Buddha Mountain in Tambun, the statue will be consecrated in a ceremony to be held next week” to avoid a “dangling modifier”, as explained in
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000012.htm
– Kengt, Penang

The above is my writing to and published by The Star’s MIND OUR ENGLISH on May 26, 2006 under the headline “faulty sentence” which together with my earlier posting on February 05 under the subject of “who” or “whom” (relative pronouns) will be touched on again in my next posting.

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