Concordia University School of Law, Faculty Scholarship
Title
Laughing All the Way to Court: Avoiding the Humor and Headaches Created by Misplaced Modifiers
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2011
Abstract
Modifiers can create unintended humor, or hurl unintended insults, when we forget that they need to be near the word they modify and let them drift [elsewhere]. [excerpt]
CU Commons Citation
Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff, Laughing All the Way to Court: Avoiding the Humor and Headaches Created by Misplaced Modifiers, Advocate, Nov. 2011, at 37.