Justice Neil Gorsuch is already shaking up business as usual at SCOTUS

Hotair ^ | 05/03/2017 | Jazz Shaw

[Kay]

Elegant reply.

[Lazamataz]

Actually, the rule in grammar is that the modifying clause be related to the noun that is closest to it. I wrote: “Having been a clerk in that court, Gorsuch probably knows...” The clause relates to Gorsuch. It is not a dangling modifier. The pronoun “I” does not appear anyplace in the sentence.

WOW! You were a clerk in the Supreme Court???!?

[Lazamataz]

When I was a young PFC, I clerked for a while for 1LT Robert E. Waller.

Got ya beat. I was an aide-de-camp to Robert E. Lee.

I will tell you, Anteitam Creek was a meatgrinder on both sides.

[xzins]

Are you the one who discovered that a set of plans were missing?

[Lazamataz]

Are you the one who discovered that a set of plans were missing?

We did lose our battle plans. I was the one who discovered the loss. Our network was penetrated with a Man-in-the-Middle attack, but the plans were encrypted with SHA256, so decrypting them would be difficult.

[vannrox]

Perfect! Finally, a Judge that will roll up his sleeves and do some of the grunt work himself, instead of just rubber stamping the work of underlings....

[Albion Wilde]

[Albion Wilde]

"Having been a clerk in that court,..."

I'm impressed! Who did you clerk for?

No, the phrase was correctly used to modify the subject of the sentence, which was Gorsuch.

[xzins]

Thank you. Didn’t we used to have a grammarian on FR? :>)

[Albion Wilde]

I think it was tax-chick. Sorry I didn’t read the whole thread before piling on.