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SYNTAX (CONT’D)
and throw his shrew of a mother off a real train! As I searched, I found some real
gems.
The dealer sold the Cadillac to the buyer with leather seats.
So was that buyer wearing leather pants or what?
They saw a fence behind the house made of barbed wire.
Now that would have been a neat house for one of the three little pigs.
The waiter served a dinner roll to the woman that was well buttered.
Except for the use of ‘that’ instead of ‘who’ maybe the woman had a unique
way of wiggling into skin-tight jeans.
Joan piled all of her clothes in the hamper that she had worn.
I wonder how much attention she attracted as she walked down the street.
The point of all this
Make sure your sentences and phrases are ordered in a way that makes sense.
You don’t want people secretly asking questions like the ones above.
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