If you listen to it again, you'll notice that BHO flubbed first when he interrupted Roberts in mid phrase, got a few words in, stopped, and then had to back up and restart it from the beginning. That seemed to throw Roberts off his concentration, because you can hear him hesitating for awhile before continuing on with the next phrase, and even hesitating a tiny bit within that next phrase. And of course, he put the adverb at the end of the phrase instead of at the front, as the Constitution has it.
What I found interesting today is to hear some grammar police on FR point out that in actuality the Constitution used bad grammar in putting "faithfully" at the start of the phrase, and that Roberts' mistake in moving it to the end was actually the grammatically correct way to say it!
>> If you listen to it again, you’ll notice that BHO flubbed first when he interrupted Roberts in mid phrase.
That is true.
>> What I found interesting today is to hear some grammar police on FR point out that in actuality the Constitution used bad grammar in putting “faithfully” at the start of the phrase, and that Roberts’ mistake in moving it to the end was actually the grammatically correct way to say it!
They were wrong. The modifier “faithfully” describes the execution, and thus should attach to the word “execute” as written. Throwing a modifier in at the end of a sentence is inelegant — particularly when it modifies/describes a word that appeared 9-words earlier.
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