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[LL] Not your usual modifier attachment problem
Collectors of infelicities in writing are especially fond of modifier attachment problems, which often lead to entertaining misinterpretations.* In one classic form of the problem, a modifier M is intended to apply to a phrase P1 preceding it, but...
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