Thursday, September 24, 2009

Criminal Sentence 284: Who's humiliated?

From a book I finished yesterday:

"Red in the face and shaking in the limbs, I supposed he wanted nothing more than to flee this humiliation..."

Who is red in the face here? Not the "I" of the sentence. The "he" is the one with the red face and shaking limbs. You'll have to rearrange the sentence to fix this misplaced modifier:

"Red in the face and shaking in the limbs, he seemed to want nothing more than to flee this humiliation..."

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