Re: Ethics refreshment

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:19:11 -0700, "AGw. (Usenet)"
<frederick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 30, 5:42 pm, John O'Flaherty <quias...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

State of Illinois annual online ethics training for government
employees contains this sentence:

"OEIG investigators observed inspectors simply driving through the
parking lots of businesses that they later reported as having
inspected."

It seems wrong to me, and correctable by deleting either or both of
two words. Do you agree? Which two words?

I'm not sure what you're on about (a BrE speaker is probably not
qualified to speak on AmE anyway), but to me the sentence is
ambiguous.

Did the inspectors (a) merely drive through parking lots that they
later reported as having inspected, or were they (b) supposed to
inspect the businesses but instead just drove through those
businesses' respective parking lots?

I understood the latter. My problem was with the structure of the last
clause.
--
John
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