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Quick Help Awkward modifiers

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Incorrect example sentence: Lasers only destroy the target, leaving the surrounding healthy tissue intact.

Correct example sentence: Lasers destroy only the target, leaving the surrounding healthy tissue intact.

Incorrect example sentence: The robber was described as a six-foot-tall man with a mustache weighing 150 pounds.

Example sentence: The robber was described as a 150-pound, six-foot-tall man with a mustache.

Incorrect example sentence: Harry Potter learns on his journey through adolescence the value of having surrogate parents.

Correct example sentence: On his journey through adolescence, Harry Potter learns the value of having surrogate parents.