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- Good morning Kevin, I would love to help you with misplaced and dangling modifiers.
- Good morning Josh, can you help me with misplaced and dangling modifiers as I did not understand the lesson in class.
- Sure, a misplaced modifier is a modifier which describes or defines a wrong meaning. An example: The man ran on the track in the black sweater.
- This is wrong because it sounds as if the man ran inside the sweater. The correct adjustment would be: The man in the black sweater ran on the track.
- Can we start with the definition of misplaced modifier and an example for further understanding?
- I understand very well, thank you Josh!
- A dangling modifier is a modifier which causes confusion to a person as it points out an inncorrect point of view to what the speaker is saying.
- What is a dangling modifier?
- An example: To improve his vocabulary skills, every definition of a word was written down. This is wrong because it does not define who was improving his vocabulary skills.
- The correct adjustment would be:To improve his vocabulary skills, John wrote every definition of a word he read.
- I understand dangling modifiers very well but I have question!
- Yes, dangling modifiers do not have a subject.
- Are dangling modifiers always without a subject?
- No problem and I am happy also that you understand the lesson.
- Thank you so much for helping me as I understand the lesson extremely well.
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