Thursday, April 10, 2008

The first-rate education

And now, for some refreshing fun. Kids, can you spot the grammar error in this excerpt of an e-mail sent by an associate dean and director of the honors college at our beloved university?

"As graduation time at X@##$%%* once again approaches, the Honors College would like to take this opportunity to show our appreciation to the faculty members and instructors who have taught Honors College courses this year. Without whom we certainly could not continue to provide our students with the first-rate education that they receive. "

6 comments:

Tom said...

Sounds like he might be a Comp Sci PHD. Nouns are important parts of sentences. Whichever you want to refer to.

I'm not sure if that's grammatically defensible, but it sure is awkward.

DSF said...

Dependent clauses should never be alone in a sentence! Ha!

your small american said...

I agree, it's a sentence fragment about the wonderful instructors in the honors college, I guess they're not teaching grammar!

Anonymous said...

I say it's the influence of advertising copywriters. So rich. So thick. So indulgent.

AXM

your small american said...

But we were just renting.

your small american said...

Or rather: But it was just us. Who were renting.