
There should be penalties for women having babies who smoke.
What? Babies smoking? Has to be something wrong there.
I opened the door to the delivery man wearing my best party dress.
But why on earth was he wearing it?
Seriously, though, the big problem with these sentences is a common one: it’s the problem of misplaced modifiers.
They are everywhere. They can totally mangle the meaning of a sentence. And, in some cases, they are just downright comical.
Find out how to spot them (and fix them).
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