Grammar Nazi hates dangling modifiers even more than she hates junk mail

[susannalk]

This, from my "Special Invitation" to some get-rich-quick seminar:

"As my special VIP guest, I have enclosed two (2) complimentary tickets."

(Yes. I am a grammar snob.)

Comments

[lilzilla]

Huh. Took a while for me to catch what was wrong about that.

[susannalk]

I studied this sort of thing intensively in my "Grammar and the Rhetoric of the Sentence" class.

You assume too much

[lilzilla]

How do you know he's not his own special very important person guest?