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Language and Writer’s Craft: Dangling and
Misplaced Modifiers
As you prepare to complete Embedded Assessment 1, think about how you will use language for your presentation and on your visuals. Careful writers create sentences that are vivid and powerful. They are also careful not to create confusion in their sentences with misplaced modifiers.
Which sentence below has a misplaced modifier? Be prepared to say why. She saw a moose on the way to the store.
On the way to the store, she saw a moose.
The key to avoiding this kind of confusion is to be sure the noun or pronoun comes immediately after the descriptive phrase. If not, the description “dangles,” the connection is sloppy or unclear, and the sentence may confuse the reader.
Revise each sentence below to put the modifier where it belongs.
6. When we opened the leather woman’s purse, we found the missing keys.
7. Driving down the street, the car’s striking paint job made everyone gasp.
8. Running late for school, a bowl of cold cereal was all the child ate.
9. Her only full-time paid employee is a pleasant young woman with a nose ring named Rebecca, who sits at the front desk.
10. Vicious smelly creatures with huge tusks, the ship’s crew were reluctant to drive the male walruses from the beach.
11. John was photographed at the mall with his girlfriend dressed in a car mechanic’s overalls last week.
Independent reading Checkpoint
Use your independent reading notes to write about what you have learned about Nelson Mandela and the subject of your independent reading text.
my Notes
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