So I saw this xkcd, and when I tried reading it, I always felt like the ending was a bit... unbalanced.
It says:
You're in a box on wheels hurtling along several times faster than evolution could possibly have prepared you to go. (Next 5 miles.)
I can't figure out what's wrong with it, though... it's as if some word (e.g. "at"?) was supposed to follow the word "go".
So I was wondering, is the sentence grammatically correct, or is it indeed missing something?
If so, what?
Answer
It's perfectly fine. Let's rewrite it to see what's going on.
Original:
You're in a box on wheels hurtling along several times faster than evolution could possibly have prepared you to go.
"box on wheels" => "car"
"hurtling along" => "going"
Creates:
You're in a car going several times faster than evolution could possibly have prepared you to go.
Now we can erase this unnecessary part:
You're in a car going
several timesfaster than evolution could possibly have prepared you to go.
Finally creating:
You're in a car going faster than evolution could possibly have prepared you to go.
If you want to go even further, you can simplify all this to:
You're going faster than you are prepared to go.
Seems all fine here!
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