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Old Fri Oct 12, 2007, 02:30am
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Originally Posted by GarthB
Exactly. What we have here is a misplaced gerund phrase. When discussing this with students I use the classic, "The soldiers snuck up on the enemy crawling on their bellies."
So, to make the sentence grammatically correct you could insert the word "while" between "umpire" and "going for a batted ball," correct?
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