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November 22, 2018 10:48 am at 10:48 am #1628826☢️ Rand0m3x 🎲Participant
This headline turned out to be grammatically correct (I think),
but as a result of not trusting YWN’s grammar, I assumed the
President had decided to pardon some vegetables as well.
That sounded interesting, so I clicked through. As you may already
know, he hadn’t; he’d pardoned 2 turkeys named Peas and Carrots.
(Should there have been a comma before “named?” I look at things
I wrote a long time ago and notice an overabundance of commas,
so I’ve become more cautious.)November 22, 2018 11:56 am at 11:56 am #1629096yehudayonaParticipantDo you actually expect YWN headlines to be correct, grammatically or otherwise?
November 22, 2018 3:53 pm at 3:53 pm #1629175👑RebYidd23ParticipantThis one was correct, though it was confusing.
November 22, 2018 4:52 pm at 4:52 pm #1629213Mariana SantosParticipantI would have written it like this…
Trump Grants Traditional Thanksgiving Pardons To Turkeys, “Peas and Carrots”
While nothing will ever come close to the love I have for a properly executed Venn Diagram, I too appreciate a well placed comma and will freely admit to an overuse if not outright reliance on them.
November 22, 2018 11:59 pm at 11:59 pm #1629324WinnieThePoohParticipantI think the comma makes things worse, then it’s a list of 3 foods: turkeys, peas and carrots. (Remember Eats, shoots and leaves?) If anything a colon would be better- turkeys: peas and carrots.
If you want to add the quotes, you should put them around each name separately “Peas” and “Carrots”.
but best of all would have been “Trump Grants Traditional Thanksgiving Pardons to Two Turkeys Named Peas and Carrots.”November 23, 2018 1:05 am at 1:05 am #1629380👑RebYidd23ParticipantBetter yet, don’t name turkeys Peas or Carrots.
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