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Not being a native english speaker, I'm probably wrong, but it seems clear to me that were the sense of this sentence to be "...storing, distribution of (...),
by ernesth 10y ago
Not being a native english speaker, I'm probably wrong, but it seems clear to me that were the sense of this sentence to be "...storing, distribution of (...), or packing for shipment", "distributing" would have been used rather than distribution.
The homeoteleuton would have been ruined by using storage and preservation, hence it must contain meaning.
- bryondowd 10y agoThat sounds like a pretty good point. But when I try saying "distributing of" out loud, it sounds wrong, as a native speaker. I think converting that to "distribution of" is just one of those natural quirks that isn't a written rule but is very common anyway.
- swammeyjoe 10y agoI believe you could drop the "of" in this case and it would make more sense. The final section could read "packing for shipment or distributing:", which clearly shows the separation of the activities.
- rory096 10y agoThis was in fact a major point of the drivers' case: >The drivers note that each of the terms in Exemption F that indisputably names an exempt activity — “canning, processing, preserving,” and so forth on through “packing” — is a gerund. By, contrast, “distribution” is not. And neither is “shipment.” In fact, those are the only non-gerund nouns in the exemption, other than the ones that name various foods. [0] http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca1/16-1901/16-1901-2017-03-13.html http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca1/16-...