Next week, I am going to give a lesson on misplaced modifiers. If you don't know what those are, I forgive you. Kind of. Unless your name is Rudy Giuliani.
Anyway, here are some hilarious examples of sentences with misplaced modifiers:
A woman passed by leading a springer spaniel in a long black dress.
Haha! A dog wearing a dress!
After reading the paper, the telephone rang.
Haha! A telephone reading!
Oswald and Hilda found the flowers hiking up the mountain.
Haha! A flower hiking!
Geeze, English Language! You are a riot!
1 comment:
Hahaha! Finding misplaced modifiers while doing copy editing in journalism were my favorite grammar errors ever. Ever.
Here's a good one:
I heard Kelly in the living room with the cat laughing and yelling.
Abe Lincoln, you silly devil.
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