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misplaced modifier
n a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us'
Video Interlude: Watch Three Minutes of Annoying Park Slope Parents Jokes The misplaced modifier in the headline is intentional: is this a collection of jokes about annoying parents, or are the jokes themselves the annoying part? That'll be for you to judge, but the video, which appears to be the...
June 12, 2013 - Curbed New York