ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:35:20 -0500, Colin J. Williams wrote:

> Steve Holden wrote:
>> Thomas Heller wrote:

(Fixing broken unicode again)

>>>   "One of Python's great strengths"
>>>                 ^
>>>   "and also teaches Python's functional programming features"
>>>                           ^
>>>   "The book's approach is wholly practical"
>>>            ^
>> It always has been valid English. The apostrophe is only omitted from
>> personal pronouns (hers, its, and so on).
>> 
>> regards
>>  Steve
> 
> What is the subject of "teaches"?

The example given is obviously a sentence fragment. The subject will be 
in the part of the sentence left out, and from context it is almost 
certainly going to be the book being discussed, or possibly the author of 
the book.



-- 
Steven