A bad sentence
What excellent timing! I have a spate of proofreading coming up, and I’m going to try to work this sentence in somewhere:
[T]o correct a bad sentence satisfactorily is not always possible; it should never have existed, that is all that can be said.
From The King’s English, spotted by Maud Newton.
Comments
The whole essay? That's harsh, man.
Oh yes. That perfectly sums up how I felt about an essay I proofread this week.