HS: Solving the Sentence Structure Mystery!

Posted: September 22, 2010 in Uncategorized

Okay, here is the correct way to put our mixed-up sentence together. Sorry for the confusion:

“Mr. Mick Malloy, tall, young secret gambler with devil-may-care eyes and a long humorous nose, became
Mr. Malloy, tall cashier with a dignified face, a gentlemanly bank clerk, a nice sort of fellow.”

Whew. That’s a lot of appositive usage. This sentence is taken from “The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne” — author, Brian Moore.

And, for those of you who haven’t seen this dramatization of “The Screwtape Letters” by Max McLean, here you go:

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