Solid state drives

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Tue Apr 20 13:13:26 BST 2010


On 20 Apr 2010, at 12:59, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Peter Corlett wrote:
>> On 20 Apr 2010, at 12:19, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>> [...]
>>> I replying too late to be at the front of the very long queue of people
>>> who will disagree with you entirely on this.
>> Your sentence no verb. 
> Really? I can see at least three. But what do I know, being a furriner?

It's possible that being a furriner meant you missed the reference :)

"This sentence no verb" or similar is a cliche amongst proof readers and editors, and serves to flag a missing verb in a manuscript rather than be technically accurate.





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