Dangling Modifiers

Monica Wood in The Pocket Muse, gives examples of sentences with dangling  modifiers that show amusing results. “Mary admired the dress I bought for her in a department store with puffed sleeves.” The store had puffed sleeves? “Sidetracked by the phone call, the stew boiled over and Ella blamed her chatty mother.”  The phone call […]

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