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Beware of the order of words and placement of comas for clarity

Last week, I culled a number of things from mainstream and social media that inform our discussion today. The first was a topical question prominently displayed on screen by a local television station that read: Are young women losing their lives at the expense of living a flashy lifestyle?

That had something to do with several reported murders involving young women recklessly chasing life on the fast lane. Second, there was a denigrating comment on social media that, while dismissing the prospects of a prominent leader becoming the president of Kenya in 2022, ended with "...... his political graph is dieing". Third, there was a headline in one of the local dailies that read: 'Move or resign, TSC tells shifted leaders'.

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