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Okay, with commas and maybe a hyphen? I dunno. The horse example just
seems to be an example of ambiguity caused by deleting necessary words
from a sentence, not a neat example of a good sentence that is really
sneakily ambiguous.
"The technical writer, wrung-out from too much work, slumped in his
chair."
-----Original Message-----
From: Bonnie Granat [mailto:bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info]
"The technical writer wrung out from too much work slumped in his
chair."
In this case I'm specifying *which* technical writer slumped in his
chair, just as the other sentence is specifying *which horse* (the one
that was "run past the barn").
But don't worry. I didn't know that a horse run has structures in it.
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