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Originally Posted by gmw
I think the example was probably intended to be a parenthetical phrase. As in:
There was nothing friendly about her (she contained no softness), so why was she trying to help?
The problem being that the centre clause reads as a complete sentence. So a correction that might avoid changing the writer's intention could be something like:
There was nothing friendly about her, no softness at all, so why was she trying to help? |
Yep. You're grammatical analysis is correct and your solution is elegant. It maintains the intended style, removes the grammatical "error" and improves on the original. Thanks for the clarification.