What grammar error is in this sentence: He after all did interrupt her quiet night at the coffee shop.?
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at
4:15 pm
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I don’t necessarily need the correction, but I need the type of grammar error. I’m not sure what’s wrong with the sentence, except that it doesn’t sound right… so, thanks!
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There is a syntactical error (word order). The sentence would follow a standard syntax if the word ‘did’ was moved to be in between the word ‘He’ and ‘after’.
He did after all interrupt her quiet night at the coffee shop.
Edit: Using commas on either side of the words ‘after all’ would only foreground those words which I don’t think is the intention since they are not significant aspects of the sentence.
He, after all, did interrupt her quiet night……..
Or
He did, after all, interrupt her quiet.
there is a comma missing after the 1st he and after the word all ie, He, after all, did interrupt her night at the coffee shop.