Thursday, April 27, 2006

What is wrong with this sentence

from a highly reputable newspaper?

Raised in West Tisbury by folk-singer parents who hosted house parties where everyone sang and played music, Mason's mother first invited him to join her onstage when he was 13.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mason's mother was raised by folk-singer parents? That's not so bad, for him to be the grandson of folk-singers.

Oh, is that not what they meant? :)

Libby said...

OK, Genevieve got there first. Dangling modifier. If I see one of those a semester, I see a hundred. Sigh.

Sinda said...

what is sad is that I have to correct the marketing copy-writing folks at my company for these sorts o mistakes ALL THE TIME.

Sinda said...

o'

:)

Mrs. Coulter said...

Walking down the street, a tree fell on him.

I guess it was an Ent, technically, since trees don't actually walk...