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Enkku: apposition(?) numerusinkongruenssi?

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ecky

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Jun 5, 2009, 3:07:53 PM6/5/09
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A stealthy hunter, leopards are known to stalk close to their prey and
run a relatively short distance on the hunt.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1190772/What-squeak-Daring-mouse-
whos-boss-scares-leopard-steals-lunch.html

Jim Heckman

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Jun 6, 2009, 9:51:56 PM6/6/09
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On 5-Jun-2009, ecky <e...@alavastaa.invalid>
wrote in message <d2eWl.10015$vi5...@uutiset.elisa.fi>:

You're right; it's ungrammatical -- at least for me, a native
speaker of American English. It should be either "Stealthy hunters,
leopards ..." or "A stealthy hunter, the leopard is known ... its
prey ..."

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Jim Heckman

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