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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Perhaps "successful" would be a better choice of words there. The way that it reads now, one gets the impression that the author is expressing the opinion that the brother coming out onto the court during play was a positive thing.  Obviously, that is not the case, but the idea is amusing.
PS
I think that opportunities for anyone on here to criticize the diction or sentence structure of mbyron are going to be very rare.  |
Nevada, I placed my modifier correctly, in a non-restrictive relative clause directly after the word or phrase modified. Only a (perhaps ironic) misreading yields the interpretation you suggest.
From one rules geek to another.