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Old Sat Aug 08, 2009, 09:05pm
bossman72 bossman72 is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ref1986 View Post
Ask the coach if he remembers diagramming sentences in elementary school.

"A player catches a forward pass in the opponent's end zone."

is not the same as

"A player in the opponent's end zone catches a forward pass."


Bingo!

First one implies the pass (ball) was in the end zone, then caught. Second one implies the player is in the end zone, then catches a forward pass (wherever).

Well played sir!
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