7 Simple Sentences That Drive English Speakers Crazy

6. ‘Until the police arrest the drug dealers control the street.’

An invisible comma belongs somewhere in this sentence, but it’s hard to know where. (Can you pass this comma quiz?) Your first inclination is probably to take ‘until the police arrest the drug dealers’ as a single clause, but that leaves no subject in the remaining ‘control the street.’ The answer: ‘Until the police (make the) arrest, drug dealers control the street.’

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