May 13, 2005
The essence of this post, which you are about to read, ...
Check out the caption underneath the photgraph to the right (from an article in today's NYT about the Pentagon's military base-shutting proposal). Does it strike you as odd? That nonrestrictive relative clause (which suffered the biggest loss in terms of jobs, modifying Connecticut) just throws me, but I'm not quite sure why. It's not like any old modifier in this same context will throw me; for example, this is a definite improvement:
Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the state that suffered the biggest loss in terms of jobs, ...
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Posted by Eric Bakovic at May 13, 2005 02:15 PM