I Looked it up—it’s Real

See if you can sound this one out!

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The official rule is that you should write so the thing your subordinate clause refers to is a close as possible. Sometimes it’s tricky to do that.

So did the mice find out about mobile phones? That’s the closest noun.

How would you rewrite the sentence to make it less ambiguous?

Here’s how one guy, Zach Weinersmith, does it. Second panel. Only two panels appear here. Click the link to see the whole comic.

It sounds wrong, but I’m not sure how else to do it. What’s your advice?

Named after a character in a Dickens novel who frequently got words almost right.

Can you tell what the correct words are?

This goes with sing-sang-sung. Last panel.

Can you think of other verbs that match this pattern?