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Sorry then here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by australia Why do koalas always get the job They

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have the right qualifications Sorry later How did you correct

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following sentence if it needs correcting it all Caitlyn described

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her trip to australia at our travel club meeting Awesome

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sense i think shakespeare wrote that all right and here

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the potential answers All right we can go ahead and

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cross out choice because this sentence is a little confusing

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kind of like the australian platypus What are they like

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A beaver mixed with a duck You don't want to

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ask how that happened all right The trouble here is

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that the modifying phrase at our travel club meeting is

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in the wrong place as is it looks like it's

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describing the noun australia a proper one But the travel

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club meeting wasn't in australia now was it If that

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was the case everybody at the meeting would have travelled

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there and nobody would be all that interested in perspective

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So choice b makes the same mistake is the original

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sense but tries to hide it with a comma it's

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gonna take more than a comma to get this sense

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back on track option c is a total train wreck

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the phrase to australia is dangling at the end all

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lost and alone far from the trip the noun it

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modifies somehow we have to get these two lovebirds back

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together Choice eh Saves the day trip and to australia

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are back together and the modifying phrase at our travel

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club meeting is this close to caitlin described as we

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can get it there's Nothing confusing here except the tangled

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dna of the lot of us Let us know if 00:01:36.738 --> [endTime] you figure that mine Thanks

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