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I'm working with the pages app and can't get it to detect sentence fragments. Anyone have a solution?

I'm working with the pages app on my macbook pro. I can't seem to get it to detect sentence fragments. Anyone have a solution? Thanks!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 10, 2012 11:05 AM

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Aug 12, 2012 7:26 AM in response to ladybugboyles

I googled "sentence fragments" which appears to be an Americanism, which Peggy doesn't seem to know either.


It is what the rest of us call an incomplete sentence. Which to my mind describes the issue far better.


No, to my knowledge, Pages doesn't detect those. Probably because they are obvious to a cursory reading which is always the best method of sub-editing.


If you are unable to detect such elementary examples of poor English, I'd say it is time you abandoned English, and all who sail in her, and take up another language. Grunting and pointing comes to mind.


Peter

Aug 12, 2012 7:20 PM in response to ladybugboyles

Peggy is also an American and was mystified by the question.


I asked you to clarify yourself, with possible examples, and all you did was repeat the same expression all over again.


There was a time when Americans were brilliant masters of communication. I might not have agreed with what they said but boy did I admire their ability to say it.


Those days are gone, due to real failings in your education system. That is the elephant in the room, but to mention it gets the same response every time.


Peter

Aug 12, 2012 9:42 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Thank you, Peter. English may have been my least-favorite subject in high school & college, but that was due to the instructors, not the subject. I often come across as being "grammar police" (spelling police, too). The butchering of the English language grates tremendously, whether it's the Queen's English or American English. 😀


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I'm working with the pages app and can't get it to detect sentence fragments. Anyone have a solution?

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