> A hacker who goes by the name of 'Yama Tough' threatened Saturday
> to release next week the full source code for Symantec Corp's
> flagship Norton Antivirus software.
Unfortunately, Saturday could not be reached for comment but Friday and Sunday pledged support for the beleaguered day.
What's the proper grammar for this? It seems like a perfectly acceptable order for the words, but you're right that there's some flow missing. Commas surrounding 'Saturday' perhaps?
It's a better way to phrase it, certainly, but that wasn't my question. I've heard reporters use the original phrasing (i.e. "threatened Saturday"), so I consider it correct, just with incorrect punctuation. I was trying to figure out what the proper punctuation would be without changing the words.
This is part of a more general problem I have with being able to write the way I speak. I don't think I have terrible grammar when writing something relatively formal, in a "written tone" rather than a "spoken tone", but when I make comments on reddit or HN, I've noticed I have a general inability to also make my writing grammatically correct. I also use a lot of parentheses, because I tend to talk in tangents, and that's the only way I can really write it that makes sense.
The original and the version with the added preposition are both correct. If there were a real ambiguity you'd favor the preposition, but that isn't the case here.
