Is this correct English?

[Frederick Williams]

Seen here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/obama_inauguration/7837193.stm:

Roads and bridges into Washington will be closed to traffic,
with sniffer dogs on the subway.

Is that correct English? I see no connection between what occurs before
the comma and what occurs after.

[Loki Harfagr]

Roads and bridges into Washington will be closed to traffic, with
sniffer dogs on the subway.
Is that correct English? I see no connection between what occurs before
the comma and what occurs after.

at the best it'd be US-newspaperish, circular thinking and slow fingers ;-)

[Egbert White]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:39:11 +0000, Frederick Williams

Post by Frederick Williams
Roads and bridges into Washington will be closed to traffic,
with sniffer dogs on the subway.
Is that correct English? I see no connection between what occurs before
the comma and what occurs after.

It's correct English in the sense that it parses grammatically okay,
in the same sense that "I eat the window" would parse grammatically
okay.

It's bad English in that, although the intended meaning seems clear,
the way the statement is worded doesn't accurately express that
meaning. It seems reasonable to assume the writer meant the following

| Roads and bridges into Washington will be closed to traffic,
| and there will be sniffer dogs on the subway.

[Loki Harfagr]

Post by Egbert White
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:39:11 +0000, Frederick Williams

Roads and bridges into Washington will be closed to traffic, with
sniffer dogs on the subway.
Is that correct English? I see no connection between what occurs before
the comma and what occurs after.

It's correct English in the sense that it parses grammatically okay, in
the same sense that "I eat the window" would parse grammatically okay.

Still I have this feeling that your example doesn't strech enough to
reach the OP quoted sentence extents that I read more like:
"I eat the window, with rocks in glass" or
"I eat the window, with dogs of doom in the path where no one goes"

Post by Egbert White
It's bad English in that, although the intended meaning seems clear, the
way the statement is worded doesn't accurately express that meaning. It
seems reasonable to assume the writer meant the following
| Roads and bridges into Washington will be closed to traffic, |
and there will be sniffer dogs on the subway.

well put, I also think that it was the intended meaning, too bad that
he then used a word corrector and a systranslhater...