(Thanks, Liane, for sending me this one.)
Stop dangling that participle!
I have not been going on my anti-dangling participle patrol for some time, but this one in today's ST (Sept 20) is so glaring...
No, Mr Cedric Foo is a man, not a city! The sentence should have been recast as: "I think that such behaviour gives Singapore, a city known for its fairness and honesty, a bad name."
[Any Manhattanites reading that quote above? Do excuse us, our "thought leaders" just love to make comparisons. To invert Vidal Sassoon's tagline, "If they look bad, we look good".]
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What does "government removal request" mean?
I'm using this insing.com story illustration below to highlight how a garbled string of words can in fact mean something else!...
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