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Mary-Kate: "I only spent half a semester with her"

"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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Zach: "my wife is a high-paid lawyer who’s just had our baby, played by Amanda Peet"

“Fast Track is a very funny, silly comedy. I think it’s like Office Space meets Meet the Parents. I go to work for my father-in-law Charles Grodin because it’s my turn to be the breadwinner since my wife is a high-paid lawyer who’s just had our baby, played by Amanda Peet." - Zach Braff
Zach has […]

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Good job! If only everyone were like Jessica…

"You already can't bring your tweezers, and now you can't walk on with a bottle of water. That's a problem for me. If I were traveling with a carry-on only, I would be totally screwed." - Jessica Biel, in People, about the new restrictions for commercial airline travel
Jessica has avoided two common errors, both of […]

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Owen: "As a kid, my parents were pretty strict about manners"

"As a kid, my parents were pretty strict about manners, so I had the way I was with my friends and then my personality with adults, and that's continued a little bit." - Owen Wilson
Owen has misplaced a modifier. The introductory prepositional phrase "as a kid" is followed by a clause in which "my parents" […]

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Kate: "For us, Matt and I, it was about trying to really make the scenes"

"For us, Matt and I, it was about trying to really make the scenes when we were together and in love as honest as they could get." - Kate Hudson, on her work with co-star Matt Dillon in You, Me and Dupree
Kate has made a few errors in this quote. She has used a […]

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