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1. Which sentence has the correctly placed modifier and is grammatically correct?
2. Choose the best answer for each question. Avoid misplaced and dangling modifiers.
3. Getting out of the glider, Cayley saw him trembling.
4. Which of the following is correct? Misplaced modifier.
5. No one was happier than Alex to discover his missing wallet mowing the lawn.
6. What does the red phrase modify (or describe) in the following sentence?The shoes with the yellow stripes are expensive.
7. A type of modifying phrase that has no clear or logical subject.
8. Choose the sentence that has no dangling or misplaced modifier.
9. Which sentence is an example of pronoun shift?
10. My skin feels a lot smoother after applying lotion. Which of the following changes will eliminate the dangling modifier in the sentence above?
11. While watching the football game, Sue's horse ran away.
12. This modifier is in the sentence, but it is in the wrong place.
13. While singing a high note, the crowd clapped for the singer.
14. Leaving quickly, my car lights were left on.
15. What is the modifier in the sentence below that is describing the word woman. The woman behind the cash register is the owner of the store.
16. Find the misplaced words in the Sentence. I'm returning the shirt to the store that is too small.
17. What is a misplaced modifier?
18. Choose the best way to correct the following sentence:While on vacation last December, Kyle encountered a coyote skiing in the mountains.
19. Celia grabbed the food for the dogs from the pantry. Which of these is the best way to revise the sentence above to make it clear and effective?
20. A dangling modifier doesn't have a _____ word to attach itself to; therefore, it is left dangling.
21. Frightened by our presence, the rabbit perked up its ears and twitched its nose.
22. One of the cashiers thinks that (her, their) boss has been transferred to a different location.
23. What's the problem with the modifiers in this sentence? Tonya made the mistake of walking her boisterous bulldog Bill in high heels.
24. What's the problem with the modifiers in this sentence? Whispering into Valerie's ear, Rafael shared the gossip which had shocked and dismayed everyone in the cafeteria.
25. Like most university professors in 1881, Jean Cocteau's personality was acerbic.
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