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Originally Posted by bmo Thanks tdol,
You are saying the IN phrase is used to modify the nearest event - the arraignment - as in 1 below:
1. President Bush viewed a replay of Saddham Hussein's arraignment in Baghdad.
BMO | Prepositional phrases can be tricky. Absent other context, your first original sentence could be read two ways. |
Aha, that is what I am afraid of, that it could be that President Bush, while he was in Bagdad, viewed a replay of the arraignment happened somewhere, or that President Bush, in somewhere, viewed a replay of the arraignment happened in Baghdad.
I saw the first one on CCN's ticker tape (how do you call this?) on TV.
Thanks.
BMO