![]() ![]() The second says it is different if the job is a title, such as “Cardinal”. The first link says that using job titles as modifiers for proper names is appropriate for journalistic reports but not for narrative writing. ![]() She’s not alone.įor a better analysis of the first problem than I can offer, as well as a post showing Dan Brown’s propensity to repeat the same error with other novels, see the Language Log links. The author, June Casagrande, questions whether “vaulted” adds anything useful to “archway”, but she has a bigger problem with whether “renowned” has any right to be in this sentence. Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum’s Grand Gallery. ![]() One of my favourite resources, It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer’s Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences, criticizes the first sentence of “The Da Vinci Code” Dan Brown is infamous in the world of grammarians. ![]()
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