Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:00:29 EDT
Consider This Sentence
The following sentence appears in an article in The Guardian on Apple News. “Japan said its fighter jets used flares for the first time to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave its airspace, the defence ministry in Tokyo said, as tensions rise over increasing Russian and Chinese military cooperation in the region.”
Run-on, my son.
The country of Japan is a speaker credited at the beginning of the first clause, but the Japanese Ministry of Defense is credited at the end of the clause.
When it uses English, the Japanese government prefers to spell defense with an s.
My rewrite: “Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshimasa Hayashi, said that a Russian military aircraft violated Japanese airspace three times on Monday near northern Hokkaido. Aircraft of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces fired flares in response to the third incursion. This is the first time the SDF has fired flares at Russian aircraft.”