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pecuniumSo, matociquala has a feature, wherein she informs us of the words Word didn't know.
I have long ago given up on the grammar checker in Word being able to keep track of subject/verb relationships when an intermediate phrase intrudes, but today I got one I just had to share. I was roughing out some text, and wrote the following (clunky) sentence.
One of my film bodies is an FE2, which has no mirror lock-up, but when I activate the self-timer the first thing to happen is the mirror flips up.
It needs some work, mostly in the last half. Word agreed with that assessement, kindly offering up this version instead.
One of my film bodies is an FE2, which has no mirror lock-up, but when I activate the self-timer the first thing to happen be the mirror flips up.
Right now, I'm tending toward something like this:
One of my film bodies is an FE2, which has no mirror lock-up, but the first thing to happen when I activate the self-timer is the mirror flipping up.
matociquala has a feature, wherein she informs us of the words Word didn't know.I have long ago given up on the grammar checker in Word being able to keep track of subject/verb relationships when an intermediate phrase intrudes, but today I got one I just had to share. I was roughing out some text, and wrote the following (clunky) sentence.
One of my film bodies is an FE2, which has no mirror lock-up, but when I activate the self-timer the first thing to happen is the mirror flips up.
It needs some work, mostly in the last half. Word agreed with that assessement, kindly offering up this version instead.
One of my film bodies is an FE2, which has no mirror lock-up, but when I activate the self-timer the first thing to happen be the mirror flips up.
Right now, I'm tending toward something like this:
One of my film bodies is an FE2, which has no mirror lock-up, but the first thing to happen when I activate the self-timer is the mirror flipping up.
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Date: 2008-12-02 07:53 am (UTC)"One of my film bodies is an FE2, which has no mirror lock-up, but when I activate the self-timer, the mirror flips up before anything else can happen."