Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Where's the verb?

Sometimes, people forget that without a verb, a sentence just isn't complete:

In the battle for e-book reader domination, Samsung's Papyrus—a new touchscreen model.

This sentence clearly needs a rewrite, as there really isn't a verb that can just be slipped in somewhere - unless you consider the 's in 'Samsung's' to be a contraction (Samsung is/has) rather than a possessive. Then you could say something like "Samsung's introducing/brought the Papyrus."
Or possibly add a "welcome" or "meet" after the comma ("In the battle for e-book domination, welcome Samsung's Papyrus - a new touchscreen model"), though in that case, the introductory "In the battle..." phrase seems off. We're not contenders on the battlefield, the e-book readers are.

Source: http://i.gizmodo.com/5182750/samsungs-touchscreen-papyrus-e+book-reader

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