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Word usage problem?
From:
Carol Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:08:40 -0700
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Dear List Members:
 
This morning in class, the students and I came across a sentence in their grammar handbook that apparently contains a misusage of some sort that we could not identify:
 
The Keweenaw Peninsula is surrounded on three sides by Lake Superior.
 
The only explanation we could some up with is that "three sides" should be replaced with "all sides" because a peninsula only has three sides and an isthmus. Or does it have two sides?
 
Best-
 
Carol

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