Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Just for show

I must have been 8 or 10

My mother had a piece of news which she related over tea when we came home from school: she had seen a lady riding in the back of a chauffeur driven car

Obviously a unique event in our small 1950s country town

I however was puzzled by the strangely inverted construction

Why did she not just say ‘ a car driven for show’

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