"I only spent half a semester with her, and a lot of that time was in the darkroom with her people." - Mary-Kate Olsen, in Australian Harper's Bazaar, about her internship with photographer Annie Leibovitz
Mary-Kate has made a common error in modifier placement. Her use of "only" before the verb "spent" means that all she […]
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