Dangling Modifiers
Dangling modifiers happen when participles,
infinitives and gerunds don't hook up with the sentence's subjects.
Their effects are often quite funny.
Walking down the street, a sign in the window
caught my eye.
To comply with the draft law and avoid being
arrested, Paul's mother persuaded him to register.
Stripped to the skin and standing by the
window, the painter made a portrait of the shivering model.
As with run-on
sentences, the writer must revise these errors by starting
all over, building a sentence on a central act or relationship of
subject and verb.
As I walked down the street, I noticed a
catchy sign. ("A sign caught my eye" makes a slightly surreal
effect.)
Paul's mother persuaded him to register so
that he would obey the draft law and avoid arrest.
The painter portrayed the shivering model
stripped to the skin and standing by the window.
Misplaced Modifiers Examples
As a lover of the land, James Watt must go.
(Senator Alan Cranston)
We cannot expect a newspaper on delicate
subjects to print stories unfit for a family audience.
If you look around you can find plenty of
examples in history books of paranoia, greed, and corruption.
Is James Watt the lover of the land, or is
Cranston?
A newspaper devoted to delicate subjects?
History books of paranoia?
The same principle applies here as above:
erase or reconstruct.
Sentence Fragments
Comma Splices
Run-on Sentences
Dangling or Misplaced Modifiers
Subject-Verb Agreement
Split Infinitives
Which, That, It, and Of
Semi-colons and Colons
Apostrophes
His and Her
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