Can Palin's sentences stand up to a grammarian?

[icarus]

Thank you, heidi8:

Can Palin's sentences stand up to a grammarian?



Hee.

Comments

[balikpulang.livejournal.com]

What a mess indeed!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

It's impressive.

[mad_maudlin]

Owch. Reed-Kellogg diagrams always look messy, but this is over the top.

(Got a handle on the original quote? I'd like to try my hand at a tree diagram.)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Here it is. Have fun. *g*

"I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people."

[mad_maudlin]

O.o

There's at least three sentences in that structure. Dear god. She's even less verbal than Bush.

[sarka.livejournal.com]

I just... English is my fourth language, and I think I've wiped most of those grammatical issues out of my spoken English. Seriously, it's like she's adding random words in there. (Is there, like, a drive, on her part, to have the word "families" in every sentence she speaks?)