Spot the error-4

June 29, 2012|By John E. McIntyre | The Baltimore Sun

"an owner of a Chevrolet dealership and a farmer"

Well, probably not since 1865. Thirteenth Amendment and such.

Impoverished in inflections, English has to lean heavily on word order, which gives rise to many unintended ambiguities. Of appears to have two objects in this phrase, which is why the copy editor rewrote the sentence to read "a farmer and owner of a Chevrolet dealership."

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