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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Misplaced Prepositional Phrase
Message-ID: <307@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 17:19:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: cylixd.307
Posted: Fri Sep 20 17:19:18 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 05:01:49 EDT
Reply-To: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN
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I just got through posting something to net.cooks that immediately
became a major source of embarrassment when I realised (after it
was too late, of course) that the first sentence contained a
prepositional phrase which could be taken to be misplaced. One
can read the sentence a certain way and get hilarious results.
I thought I would share it with you cunning linguists:


"A few months ago my wife and I ate some chocolate drops from a
fancy restaurant's dessert bar that put us under the table after
only a couple of bites."


The moral: Next time you eat at a fancy restaurant, watch out. If
its dessert bar bites you, it could put you under the table.

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Dave Kirby    ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave)

(The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect 
those of RCA Cylix. They may not even reflect my own.)


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