This is a clipping from a Sarasota, Fla., newspaper, a fact that makes me very, very sad for newspapers in general and copy editors in particular. There is so much to pick on in this one little sentence that I don't even know where to begin.
"Weather your in the mood to just sip on a martini and watch the cars go by on your patio, or your ready for a Big Night Out with drinking and dancing, we hope you'll join us."
1. I think you meant "whether." Those darn homophones!
2. Speaking of homophones, there is a big difference between “your” and “you’re.”
3. The cars are going by on the patio, are they? Makes it hard to enjoy your martini.
4. Big Night Out is apparently a proper noun.
5. And (just to be picky), you split your infinitive: "to just sip."
Phewsh! I am all tuckered out from that one.
2 comments:
If you're really picky, you might object to "Areas" as well. :)
Please tell me that was some weird version of a classified that was un-editable. Please, please, please.
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