Grammar: It's boring to talk about, unless you're that type of person. Which personally I am, though I recognize that the eyes of most normal humans glaze over like donuts at the very first mention of "tenses." Yet I implore you to push through that resistance and read this "interactive guide to ambiguous grammar" by Vijith Assar anyway. It goes somewhere genuinely important, so stick with it.
This 'guide to ambiguous grammar' is unexpectedly disturbing
AP's how-to-use-hyphens-wisely guide causes consternation among pedants
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Graffiti grammar cops prowl the night, spraypainting corrections
Agent X and Agent Full Stop are a pair of graffiti activists who call themselves Acción Ortográfica Quito: they sneak around the streets of Quito, Ecuador with cans of red… READ THE REST
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