Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world.
Now, three survivors of Abu Ghraib will finally get their day in U.S. court against the military contractor they hold responsible for their mistreatment.
The trial is scheduled to begin Monday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, and will be the first time that Abu Ghraib survivors are able to bring their claims of torture to a U.S. jury, said Baher Azmy, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights representing the plaintiffs.
Y’all right there buddy?
It seemed weird but was and is a valid sentence.
Give or take, as also is the case for your sentence, a few missing bits of punctuation:
It was a valid sentence.
It still is, but it used to be too.
Is that a certain style guide’s punctuation? Because that could possibly change what is valid. Yours is definitely more readable.
Have a banana 🍌
Not that I know of; it’s just what I think works.
I’m glad you agree! That makes me even more confused why most of the people reading my comment seem mad about it.
Am I wrong? Is this still a major topic of discussion? This is just another thing in the past.
I guess maybe I need help because I couldn’t parse it. I’m still trying to and I’m still not getting it.
“…of this that is”
of this that is what? huh?
Significant portion || of those that even remember this || that is.
The “that is” is a clarifier, similar to “is what I meant”.
Maybe a comma would’ve helped.
Even after my comment you can’t figure out what I’m saying? Maybe you were a tiny bit confused in the beginning but… You’re still lost?
Interesting.
I think I figured it out
I was just having trouble understanding what the sentence was referencing. Once I tossed a comma in, I was able to understand that you were referencing the original Abu Gharaib event. The use of ‘that is’ without a comma to create a pause (which would be present if it were spoken) was confusing to me, because it seemed like there was something you were intending to reference in the sentence that I didn’t see. My brain read it and went “this that is… what?”, as in “What is this that?”
One missing comma and a sentence broke your brain? And from there it took you this long to figure out what I was saying?
Are you ok?
Taken alone, I think that sentence is confusing without a comma.
A tiny grammatical error should not hurt your brain this bad dude. You’re kind of telling on yourself and grasp of the English language.
Ok, well sometimes things might make sense when spoken and you are able to add inflection and pauses. They don’t always come across in the written form. I found it confusing and I still do. I guess I’m sorry for finding it confusing?
Commas are important people!Commas are important, people!They just left out a comma (if it was technically necessary). …remember this, that is.
It’s short for “that is to say” and either shows up at the beginning or end of a sentence.
It’s an addendum to a statement, that is.