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Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 147MISPLACED My neighbor, while walking to the store, wasmugged.(unnecessarily dividing the subject and verb)CORRECT While walking to the store, my neighbor was mugged.Try this procedure in working with the following exercises.1.Circle the modifier.2.Draw an arrow from the modifier to the word or words it modifies.3.If the modifier does not relate directly to anything in the sen-tence, it is dangling, and you must recast the sentence.4.If the modifier does not modify the nearest word or words, or if itinterrupts related sentence parts, it is misplaced and you need toreposition it.Exercise 7 Correcting Dangling and Misplaced ModifiersCircle the dangling (D) or misplaced (M) modifier in each of the fol-lowing sentences.Identify the type of modifier by writing D or M inthe blank to the left.Rewrite each sentence in the space provided.1.Driving through the Brazilian rain forest, leaf-cutterants were spotted going about their work.2.This tribe of ants is one of the few creatures on thisplanet that grows food.3.Leaf-cutter ants learned to cleverly farm more than50 million years ago.4.Climbing trees, the leaves are cut down and bitteninto the shape of half-moons.Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning.All Rights Reserved.May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part.Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed fromthe eBook and/or eChapter(s).Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience.Cengage Learning reserves the right to removeadditional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. 148 Chapter 9 Adjectives and Adverbs5.Then each ant hoists a leaf and carries it back downthe tree toward the nest, weighing ten times morethan it does.6.Marching home with their leaves, a parade of flutter-ing green flags is what the ants resemble.7.Carried into the subterranean tunnels of the nest, theleaf-cutters deposit their cargo.8.Taking over, the leaves are cleaned, clipped, andspread with secretions from tiny gardener ants bodies.9.Lined up in neat rows, the ants place fungus on thehunks of leaves.10.Cultivated for food, the ants use the leaves as fertil-izer for their fungus garden.Exercise 8 Correcting Dangling and Misplaced ModifiersCircle the dangling (D) or misplaced (M) modifier in each of thefollowing sentences.Identify the type of modifier by writing D orM in the blank to the left.Rewrite each sentence in the spaceprovided.Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning.All Rights Reserved.May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part.Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed fromthe eBook and/or eChapter(s).Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience.Cengage Learning reserves the right to removeadditional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 1491.I observed the parade of floats and marching bands onthe rooftop.2.Having no money, my piano had to be pawned for cash.3.The alleged burglar addressed the judge on his knees.4.Freshly snared from the ocean floor, he enjoyed thedelicious lobster.5.Wearing a strapless velvet evening gown, Bobthought his wife looked ravishing.6.The student asked to see the school nurse with asore throat.7.The lost child held on tight to the detective cryingfor his mommy.8.Cursing like a longshoreman, the baby finally arrivedafter her thirty-sixth hour of labor.Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning.All Rights Reserved.May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part.Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed fromthe eBook and/or eChapter(s).Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience.Cengage Learning reserves the right to removeadditional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. 150 Chapter 9 Adjectives and Adverbs9.By jumping on a trampoline, your heart gets a goodcardiovascular workout.10.The outlaw phoned his granny in a pickle.Chapter ReviewExercise 9 Writing Sentences with Adjectives and AdverbsWrite a sentence using each of the following words.1.good, better, best2.good, wellCopyright 2010 Cengage Learning.All Rights Reserved.May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part.Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed fromthe eBook and/or eChapter(s).Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience.Cengage Learning reserves the right to removeadditional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it
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