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ambiguous puzzle sentence I am researching. Is that linked verbs ?
My question is regarding one specific sentence :
To confirm your miles balance, just purchase and fly with Alitalia or the Partner Airlines to any destination and for any fare, between 25 May and 24 June 2017.
What is confusing is that it seems to be an ambiguous phrase tree. Purchase and fly with .. it is two different verbs. Flying is the one tagged to the dates and purchase is the requirement.. Or am I wrong?
Would you feel that means that the purchase also has to happen between 25 May and 24 June? I read it to mean purchase, and the dates relate to the travel and not the purchase.
My thoughts are it was erroneously translated from Italian (we would say May 24th in USA) as this is alitalia.
Below is the entire context:
According to the terms and conditions, when no new miles have been earned under the Program over a period of 24 months, the miles in the account expire and are cancelled.
But you are still in time to save them!
To confirm your miles balance, just purchase and fly with Alitalia or the Partner Airlines to any destination and for any fare, between 25 May and 24 June 2017.
Please help me !!
ThePinkCats (talk) 19:17, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia, not a general forum
We receive spam and advertisements phrased as "questions" pretty often.
If that is not the purpose of your account, you could try asking your question one last time at Misplaced Pages:Reference desk/Language without mentioning the company name. If you mention the company name again, I will have to assume that your intention in registering for this site was to spread the name as much as possible. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:36, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
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