"The Political Achievements of the Earl of Dalkeith was a political pamphlet that was published and circulated in Edinburgh during the 1880 United Kingdom general election. It was well presented but inside the neatly printed cover there were just thirty-two blank pages, making it an early empty book."
"The 32 blank pages of the pamphlet have been digitised by the LSE Library."
Back in the day, StorageTek, a company started by ex-IBMers, used something along the lines of "This page left intentionally almost blank." Which is, of course, more accurate. :)
I always wondered why there is no "is" in this phrase. Why is it not "This page is intentionally left blank". I hoped this article would answer it, but no. It does show the is in [] to mark that's it's kinda missing. Anyone knows why there's no "is"? Does it ring wrong to you without "is"?
Because "left" works fine as the verb and doesn't require "is". To me, it flows better in speech with "is", but that's a subjective opinion and probably a culturally-influenced one; British people use that construction less than Americans like me, in my experience.
It would be more correct to add “was” since it happened in the past (the act of leaving it blank). Not necessary at all because “left blank” is already past tense.
does 'he eats faster than I [do]' seem wrong to you? it's a different problem ('than' as conjunction vs 'than' as preposition)[1] but to similar efect.
[+] [-] sonofgod|6 years ago|reply
"The Political Achievements of the Earl of Dalkeith was a political pamphlet that was published and circulated in Edinburgh during the 1880 United Kingdom general election. It was well presented but inside the neatly printed cover there were just thirty-two blank pages, making it an early empty book."
"The 32 blank pages of the pamphlet have been digitised by the LSE Library."
[+] [-] pochamago|6 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] Semiapies|6 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] chaoticmass|6 years ago|reply
"is" intentionally omitted.
[+] [-] jiveturkey|6 years ago|reply
does 'he eats faster than I [do]' seem wrong to you? it's a different problem ('than' as conjunction vs 'than' as preposition)[1] but to similar efect.
[1] https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/than-i-v...
[+] [-] rahuldottech|6 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] lom888|6 years ago|reply
Used to have this set as my homepage.
[+] [-] tubbs|6 years ago|reply
It's been a long time since I've seen a page like this: http://blank.org/memory/oldweb/home.html
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[+] [-] newshorts|6 years ago|reply
Also, anyone donate to Wikipedia?
[+] [-] Semiapies|6 years ago|reply