Hugh Jackman donated a pair of jeans to a charity that sold for over $20,000.
This sentence contains a misplaced modifier. The modifier “that sold for over $20,000″ is an adjective phrase that is located in an illogical place in the sentence.
The intended meaning of this sentence is easy to understand: Hugh donated a pair of […]
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