Misplaced Modifiers: How to Find Them and How to Lose Them
Remember Groucho Marx's famous quip? "One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got into my pyjamas I'll never know. " What makes this joke work is, of course, the misplaced modifier "in my pyjamas. " But what if Groucho hadn't added that second sentence? Would you have noticed a problem? What Are Misplaced Modifiers? Put simply, misplaced modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses separated from...
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