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Name Date x2013 Exercise 1 This handout accompanies Exercise 1 of Grammar Bytes Get the answers by doing the interactive version of the exercise at this address httpcho mpchompcomexerci. Name Date – Exercise 2 This handout accompanies Exercise 2 of Grammar Bytes! Get the answers by doing the interactive version of the exercise at this address: http://ch ompchomp.com/exerci Mini-Lesson #48. UWF Writing Lab. What is a Dangling Modifier. A . dangling modifier. . is created when the noun or idea being modified is left out of the sentence. The modified term must be openly provided in the sentence. Knowing intuitively what is being modified does not make a correct sentence.. Group 3. Tessa Pierce, . Tailyr. Mack, Diana Perez, . Thomas McCullough. Modifiers. Modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that refer to other elements in the sentence (referents). . The location of the modifier determines the meaning of the sentence.. . based. . on. . Connectives. FSTA 2012. Pliant. . system. (. negation. ) . Pliant. . system. (. t-norm. , . t-conorm. ). Pliant. . system. Pliant. operator (. uninorm. ). Modalities. . induced. Name Date – Exercise 3 Thi s handout accompanies Exercise 3 of Grammar Bytes! Get the answers by doing the interactive version of the exercise at this address: http://ch ompchomp.com/exercis “Understanding Space”. Activator. What’s wrong with this picture?. Guided Questions. What’s wrong with this picture?. What’s wrong with this sentence?. How can we re-write it correctly?. Activator. Insert the word . only. in any of the eight positions to get eight different meanings. 3. “In addition to being ugly and inappropriate, the students often make grammatical errors on their signs.”. Dangling, Misplaced, and Squinting Modifiers. Prepared by. John . Tacapan. AP and AVID Teacher (DHS). Adjunct . Faculty (Long Beach City College). Assistant Professor of Education (. Westcliff. University). I John 2:12-17. “Misplaced Love”. Love . not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.. What are Modifiers?. Modifiers are words or phrases that give a bit more information about a subject being described.. Modifiers help make writing more vivid and interesting to read.. BUT: There are some things to look out for when using them…. S - 9 Revised Summer 2012 1 MISPLACED MODIFIERS A misplaced modifier is a word, phrase or clause that is awkwardly placed in the sentence so that it does not describe what the writer wanted it to des NINDA. What's a dangling modifier?. A MODIFIER IS A WORD/PHRASE/SENTENCE THAT ADD DESCRIPTION TO THINGS.. A DANGLING MODIFIER IS WHEN YOUR MODIFIERS HAVE NO SUBJECT.. "hungry, the cake was eaten" <-- no subject. Pascha. Dangling Modifiers. Modifiers . are words that are used in a sentence to better describe the statement.. While . dangling modifiers . are words that used to describe the sentence, however resulting in making the sentence more unclear.. Modfiers. Be sure to add this entry to your Table of Contents in your Writer’s Notebooks. What is a modifier. A modifier is a word or group of words that describes the meaning of another word or phrase..