jasonfodor wrote:
kind of something learned throughout grade school: you can ignore clauses set off in commas.
BUT
I saw this sentence in a Manhattan test prep book:
To get to his house, Jim biked along an old dirt road, which cut through the woods.
The example is used to show "to get to his house" refers to Jim and "which cut through the woods" modifies road and all that makes sense. However if you take out the clause between the commas it reads: To get to his house which cut through
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