New posts on Style and Substance always make for banner days. My favorite part is scoffing along with paragraphs like this:
Employers Watching Workers Online Spurs Privacy Debate, the headline said. But wait, employers spurs? Why not employers spur? Because it’s the watching that spurs, not the employers. What we have here is a fused gerund. It would be unfused by the proper use of the possessive: Employers’ Watching Workers Online Spurs Privacy Debate.
Pshh! Duh, WSJ headline writers. Watch your fused gerunds, please. What is this, amateur hour?
