: As you suspected, in the first sentence it's ambiguous who is eating the oranges - is it the men or is it the deer? The comma in the second sentence makes it clear that it's not the deer

As you suspected, in the first sentence it's ambiguous who is eating the oranges - is it the men or is it the deer? The comma in the second sentence makes it clear that it's not the deer and, therefore, must be the men. I'm not sure about "greatly" altering the meaning of the sentence, but it definitely does clarify the meaning of the sentence.
I think the ambiguity can be avoided by re-arranging the sentence like so:

Every man, while eating oranges, chased three deer into the forest.

This leaves no doubt as to who is eating the oranges.

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