artart wrote:a. I took John to the hospital unconscious.
b. I took John unconscious to the hospital.
c. I took John, unconscious, to the hospital.
Which of the above are grammatical and meaningful?
Obviously I couldn't have been unconscious when I took John to the hospital, so John has to be the one who is unconscious.
Something can be "obvious" after a moment's reflection and still be confusing in the moment. I would reject (a.) for that reason. (b.) and (c.) are grammatically equivalent (since punctuation is not strictly speaking a matter of grammar) and better stylistically than (a.) since they lack the grammatical ambiguity (for me at least).
"Richmond is a real scholar; Owen just learns languages because he can't bear not to know what other people are saying."--Margaret Lattimore on her two sons