space - the final frontier
Spaces are important in writing. They don't look like much; in fact, they don't look like anything at all. They are, however, necessary to prevent words from colliding and destroying the very sentence those words create.
Here are two examples from one press release from ACORN, responding to a resolution introduced in the Georgia General Assembly by Sen Jeff Mullis:ACORN is proud of our work to help low and moderate-income citizens become apart of the electoral process.
and my favorite:ACORN has a zero policy for employees deliberately falsifying registrations, and in the cases where our internal quality control procedures identifies this is happening, the person is fired and turned into elections and law enforcement officials.*
If I were Senator Mullis, I'd be more worried about ACORN's transmogrifier gun than their voter registration drives.
* This one has a bonus space problem: sometimes, spaces should be filled with words. See if you can spot which word is missing and where! (There's also a subject-verb agreement problem, but that's not very interesting.)
Here are two examples from one press release from ACORN, responding to a resolution introduced in the Georgia General Assembly by Sen Jeff Mullis:ACORN is proud of our work to help low and moderate-income citizens become apart of the electoral process.
and my favorite:ACORN has a zero policy for employees deliberately falsifying registrations, and in the cases where our internal quality control procedures identifies this is happening, the person is fired and turned into elections and law enforcement officials.*
If I were Senator Mullis, I'd be more worried about ACORN's transmogrifier gun than their voter registration drives.
* This one has a bonus space problem: sometimes, spaces should be filled with words. See if you can spot which word is missing and where! (There's also a subject-verb agreement problem, but that's not very interesting.)