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The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left (Reprint Edition) by David Crystal Paperback, 239 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-19-922969-4 / 0199229694 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-922969-7 / 9780199229697 Weve all been taught that this sentence--"Driving in from the airport, the flags flapped furiously"--is wrong, wrong, wrong. But is it, asks David Crystal. Everyone knows what this sentence means. No one actually thinks that the flags were driving the car. Is this sentence really incorrect. In T |