Today’s ACT question of the day presents a key piece of information that is out of order in its sentence.

The paragraph in which it appears is about a professor who is preoccupied by baseball. The underlined statement is not intended to refer to the professor, though that is the confusing situation with which we are presented. So, what do we do?

The underlined statement refers to the location of the comic book. The comic book falls at the end of the sentence, so we must organize this information properly and put it at the end of the sentence with its referent.

We can’t put it in the other recommended locations, because it does not make sense to say that a boy is inside a book, nor that the wisdom of the ages was in a schoolbook. That second one is possible, perhaps, but in context it doesn’t make any sense. So, we leave the comic inside the schoolbook.