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    "Remember those xenophobic ads Sunflower ran in against Gov. Sebelius in Kansas?"

    "What? ...Err, no."

    Please watch sentence construction. Is Sunflower a person? of a field full of? On the internet and in the global market place, where so many non-english speakers produce nonsensical sentences, a poorly constructed sentence can derail a reader, and puts native english speakers in danger of losing that audience member, merely because the author has not made the effort to write carefully.

    Try this:
    "Remember the xenophobic ads produced by [or for] the candidate Sunflower, in his [or her] race against Gov. Sebelius in Kansas?"

    Please remember that intonation carries much of the meaning in casual speech, so that if you use casual constructions in your written work, your meaning is endangered because intonation is lost.

    Although this comment is directed at a particular author and sentence, I would not have written it, except that poorly constructed sentences are so common.

    Kudos to the author for otherwise informative research and commentary.

    Stephen Alrich Marshall

    On Natural gas utilities are no friends of Big Coal posted 1 year, 8 months ago 7 Responses