Dan Scavino. Marker 9 comms!
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No. Clearly "First indictment" is the subject and "will trigger" is the verb and "mass pop awakening" is the object. Even a comma doesn't change that. "First, indictment will trigger mass awakening." or "First indictment, will, trigger etc."
if misspellings and sentence formation matter, then going strictly by the book on grammar rules doesnt really apply anymore
it could very well be that its just missing a word "First indictment [unseal] will trigger {upon} mass pop awakening"
That's thinking like a NWO communist who's using 1984 as though it were his bible.
That is a meaningful statement, but if you are going to start inserting guesses, you could create many meanings.
Very true
Well put, anon. And we know you meant to place no commas after the subject and auxiliary verb in the second example, but only before "etc." :)
"First indictment will trigger, etc."
Things That Make You Go Hmmmm:
Since etc. simply means "and so forth", why is there a rule that it always needs a comma before it?
I love cats and dogs and so forth. (No comma required)
I love cats and dogs, etc. (Suddenly comma required? Why? What if it weren't there? Would readers be thrown into a state of mental confusion? :) Keq
Wouldn't "I love cats and dogs etc." restrict the meaning of etc. to the dog? Which doesn't make much sense either.
Why would the addition of the words "etc." or "and so on" at the end of a list restrict the meaning of those words to the final item? I'm not familiar with that idea.
/wordnerd
I wondered just how "etcetera" is defined as a part of speech. Apparently few others have thought of that, because I got plenty of examples of usage and only Merriam Webster says it is a noun. However, it isn't just a noun, it is a placeholder in a list of similar nouns, to be used like an ellipsis (....) for something missing. The list needs to have items that go together, conceptually. If you say "dogs, cats, etc.," the implication is domestic animals, or pets. If you say "the cat and dog etc.," then the "etc." is implying a missing list of--what? More dogs? Dog toys? Now if "etc." can be called a modifier, then it refers to "dog" which is the nearest prior noun, i.e. the "antecedent." Getting antecedents wrong (lost antecedent) can totally change the meaning in a sentence and paragraph, and is probably my pet grammar gripe. (Insert picture of lost and confused Auntie Sedent doing Mr. Magoo-like things) Anyway, in the paucity of information about this universal shortcut, I did find that it must always be preceded with a comma.