From a caption in an article about needy food banks:
"United Food Bank needs volunteers to pick backyard fruit for donation that would otherwise go to waste."
I wish this sentence would go to waste. A free grapefruit for anyone who can rewrite this correctly.
Hint: misplaced modifier.
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1 comment:
Here is the rewrite:
United Food Bank needs volunteers to pick backyard fruit for donation; otherwise it will all go to waste.
Jeffrey Morris
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