Here's a sentence written by one of my freshmen in a
literature course last year:

  "Although Percy Shelley was famous before he had
   met Mary, it was she who kept his works in
   circulation after his death by drowning in the sea."

And here's a link to some medical "bloopers" collected
by Richard Lederer in his _Bride of Anguished English_:

http://www.snopes.com/humor/lists/doctors.asp

Some of the mistakes in syntax are owing to prepositional
misplacement.

              Ben Varner
     University of Northern Colorado

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