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Bayeux Tapestry detail: Coronation of Harold, created by Myrabella, 2013, used under Creative Commons license

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Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar

March 26, 2020

15 September 2015

If you’re not familiar with McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, you should be. This particular column takes on the passive voice and other modes of ambiguous grammar.

I particularly like the “past exonerative tense.”

[Tip o’ the hat to Matt Sergi for pointing this one out to me.]

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