Picture of the week in Thursday March 13 2014 edition of the Observer
getwestlondonco.uk
to simplify and paraphrase it, 'Sophia ...snapped this (fox) using her mother...'s iPhone' .
On first reading I thought the fox was playing with an iPhone left in the garden. Seeing no phone in the photo, on second reading of the text I realise it's Sophia - using her mother's iPhone, snapped this fox.
The problem is the misplaced clause, which modifies the subject, has been added as an afterthought at the end of the sentence where the phrase seems to the reader to apply to the nearest noun which is the object of the sentence.
Subjects start sentences.
getwestlondonco.uk
to simplify and paraphrase it, 'Sophia ...snapped this (fox) using her mother...'s iPhone' .
On first reading I thought the fox was playing with an iPhone left in the garden. Seeing no phone in the photo, on second reading of the text I realise it's Sophia - using her mother's iPhone, snapped this fox.
The problem is the misplaced clause, which modifies the subject, has been added as an afterthought at the end of the sentence where the phrase seems to the reader to apply to the nearest noun which is the object of the sentence.
Subjects start sentences.
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