Of Malaphors and Misplaced Modifiers
•May 3, 2023•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer
Battling cancer is hard enough for a child. But having to also battle a sibling is simply too much.
Such was the conclusion you might draw from reading a headline in a recent story in the Daily Herald — without reading the story itself.
“I taught middle school students for 37 years,” reader Kathy Heikkinen wrote to me. “Granted, I didn’t teach English, but part of the story about the TLC camp in today’s paper makes me laugh and cry.”
An abbreviation of the headline was “A camp for kids battling cancer and a sibling.”
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