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Of the emails I received last Monday, one stated, “I saw the following; No posters here fine shillings 85000”. Then followed the question: “What comes between ‘here’ and ‘fine’? For a moment, I thought perhaps the reader was jesting, so my reply was, ‘my beef exactly’ but he wrote back insisting I give him an answer.
On my way to work, I see that writing prominently displayed on the decorated wall of an overpass built by the Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA) along Mombasa Road, except that the word ‘here’ is missing. What is evident is the space between the words ‘posters’ and ‘fine’ that marks them as two independent clauses.
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