Re: Find the verb
- From: Nigel Greenwood <ndsg_mmii@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:00:00 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 18, 8:44 pm, Padraic Brown <elemti...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:35:40 +0000, Jack Campin - bogus address
<bo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
After investors digested the news that JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM)What's the problem?
will acquire the troubled investment bank Bear Stearns
(NYSE:BSC) for $236 million, or $2 a share - its shares
traded above $170 a year ago - and that the Federal Reserve
had lowered its discount rate another quarter percentage
point Sunday night, stocks seesawed in a mixed day.
I guess he means American journalese is heading towards SOV?
The subject is "stocks". All the rest of that is tension building
subordinate clauses. "Tension building" because you have to wait
(possibly with baited breath) for the end of the sentence to actually
find out what's going on.
Cf:
Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse ...
Nigel
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