Showing posts with label misplaced modifiers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label misplaced modifiers. Show all posts

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Faultlessness in the Fine Print

Here's part of the first sentence of a Yahoo! News story:
Badgered by lawmakers, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan denied the nation's economic crisis was his fault on Thursday.

Now, I'm no economist, yet I am prepared affirm this statement with 100% certainty. The economic crisis was not Greenspan's fault on Thursday. I don't know whether it was his fault, but I'm quite sure it was not his fault on Thursday.

I mean, he left that job months ago ...


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