I assume that this isn't the case, but I just want to check.
Consider this construction:
Bob wrote in his book that: she won, Joe, won, and Marvin won.
I think that I've done a construction like this in a few pieces.
But if the colon means that the word "that" is applied to all elements then wouldn't the last element say (nonsensically) "that and Marvin won"?
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@Andrew Van Wagner posted:Consider this construction:
Bob wrote in his book that: she won, Joe, won, and Marvin won.
Hi, Andrew—That's mispunctuated nonsense. Are you trying to write this?
It's an example sentence; it's not a sentence that I'd actually write.
But it illustrates the issue that I wanted to discuss in this thread, so I included it.
@Andrew Van Wagner posted:It's an example sentence; it's not a sentence that I'd actually write.
It's a great example of something that should not be written.
I'm just trying to figure out what the title of the thread says, so I used a simple example-sentence.
