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Fight continues against misplaced modifiers

 
By Gene Owens | Published: August 19, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

"Louisiana will become the last state to outlaw rooster fights on Friday,” reported USA Daily, a nationally circulated newspaper.

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"I believe most states outlaw cockfights on other days of the week as well,” Paul Ostrander said as he joined the gang at Curly's Soonerco.

Buck marvels at how often readers catch the misplaced modifiers that are missed by the writers and editors for mass-circulation publications. As Miss Prunella Pincenez repeatedly urged Buck in eighth-grade English, "Put your modifying phrases adjacent to the words they modify.”

Modifying phrases can be adjectives or adverbs, depending on where you put them. "On Friday” can be an adverb telling when something happened or an adjective telling which event you're talking about.

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