Dear Editor-on-call,
I got this comment in a critique of mine and I have NO idea what it means. Could you shed some light? I feel so stupid, but I just don't get the terminology: "Misplaced modifiers. I’m seeing this phenomenon all the time with my clients! You do this just a little, but watch your antecedents."
Sincerely,
Mystified about Modifiers
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Dear Mystified,
Your knuckle-rapping English teachers were trying to break you of this problem when they made you diagram sentences. You might...
Published on May 10, 2018 09:48