1. Deborah Waid June 12,2014
Managing Misplaced ModifiersManaging Misplaced Modifiers
Misplaced Modifiers
Dangling Modifiers
Adjective & Adverb Modifiers

2. Deborah Waid June 12,2014
Textbooks are priced at twenty dollars for this class. NO. Is the
twenty dollars for the class or the textbooks cost $20.00 ?
Textbooks for this class are priced for twenty dollars. YES
Yuki speaks English not good. NO! Verb”Speaks” Needs an
Adverb NOT an Adjective!
Yuki does not speak English very well. YES. The adverb modifies
the verb SPEAK.
Printed in boldface, students studied carefully. NO Dangling
Students studied the key words, printed in boldface. YES
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Flipping to the third chapter, the past tense verbs look difficult.NO
.Flipping to the third chapter, Yuki believed the verbs were difficult.YES

3. Q & A's
● Adjective modifiers modify______________?
● Adverb modifiers modify________________?
● Danglers dangle___where and why________?

4. Long-term goal
● Be able to identify and revise misplaced
modifiers
● Use your “ TELL” words wisely
● When writing, it is “Quality Over Quantity”

5. ● Each sentence is incorrect and worth 25 points.
● Identify all errors and rewrite sentence
correctly.
● Check your work carefully!
● Quiz is due tomorrow by NOON. Please send
it via my email account:
ddwaid45@gmail.com. Thanks!
Short Quiz
You can do it!!

6. Quiz
● The waiter brought the steak to the man covered
with mushrooms.
● Flying over the mountaintops, several deer herds
could be seen.
● Walking on the ceiling, he noticed a very large
insect.
● After sitting down, the exam began.

7. Please Evaluate This Tutorial
● What new ideas did you learn about “MMs”
not M&Ms? ( hahaha)
● What did you like most about this PPT?
● What do you like least about this PPT?
● On a scale of 1-10 ( 10 highest) use your
wiles and evaluate this tutorial. You do know
what “ Wiles '' means? If not, please look it
up.
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8. Acknowledgements
Throughout my twenty plus years of teaching writing and reading
to the hundreds of sixth graders to college students, I hope that
you will carry and use the English language with care and respect.
English has so many exceptions to its rules that it's no wonder that
we teachers need to check our details carefully and maybe so do
you! I thank two very dog -eared books , Grammar in Practice by
Lesli J. Favor,Ph.D
and The Writer's Handbook by Rosa Eschholz