-REFLECTION

MISPLACED MODIFIER+DANGLING MODIFIERS

• Dangling modifiers and misplaced modifiers are pretty similar. They are both modifiers that aren’t in the write place. Both of them make your sentence way more complicated than it really should be
• Misplaced modifiers
• Misplaced modifiers practically just mean a modifier that is misplaced. The modifier could either be with a different subject or with a different word. when there is a misplaced modifier in your sentence the sentence doesn’t make sense. Your reader has to spend more time processing your sentence because of the misplaced modifier. When you have a misplaced modifier in your sentence sometimes it sounds unintentionally funny. And if your sentence is a serious sentence and there is a misplaced modifier the whole mindset of the sentence will be changed. While doing an important project or report and there are misplaced modifiers, the reader won’t take you seriously.
• EXAMPLE: During Remembrance Day the red is the poppy.
• EXPLANATION: The correct way to write this sentence would be: During Remembrance Day we wear a red poopy. With the misplaced sentence the modifier is so misplaced that the sentence isn’t sounding serious when it is supposed to be. You have to make sure you’re re-reading your sentence and make sure you deliver your idea completely.
• Dangling modifiers
• A dangling modifier means a modifier that is dangling onto another sentence. That’s were the name came from. Dangling modifiers are really easy to fix. Most of the time it happens when you are writing a really long sentence, then you decide you should spilt the sentence into two. That’s when the modifier gets separated from its subject. When you have a regular modifier in your sentence that’s is placed properly, its easy to read. But when you have a dangling modifier its way more difficult to read. like a misplaced modifier the reader has to spend more time trying to figure out where the modifier is what its subject.
• EXAMPLE: Upon entering the room, a skeleton caught my eye.
• EXPLANATION: and this sentence it sounds that the skeleton actually caught your eye. When you were really trying to say that the skeleton caught you attention. If you moved the modifier, then it would make more sense.

Test questions

1)  A new purple water bottle, I just bought

A– I like purple water bottles
B– A purple bottle
C -I just bought a new purple water bottle.
D – I bought new water bottle, its purple.

 

2) My dog milo I love
A- Love my dog milo
B -I love my dog, he is named Milo
C – I love milo, my dog.
D – Milo is so cute, he is my dog

 

3)  I love pizza cause it’s my favorite
A- Pizza is a good to food to be your favorite
B- My favorite food to eat is pizza
C – Pizza is food that is my favorite
D -My food that is my favorite is pizza

 

4) The brown bear growled
A – That brown bear growled at me
B – The growl came from the bear that was brown
C-Brown is the bear that growled at me
D-The bear growled at me that is brown

5) Purple is a pretty flower
A – Flowers are pretty when purple
B- So pretty is the flower that is purple.
C – Flowers are pretty

D-That purple flower is so pretty

 

Answers:

1= C) I just bought a new purple water bottle.

2=A) I love my dog, he is named Milo

3=B) My favorite food to eat is pizza

4=A) that brown bear growled at me

5-=D) that purple flower is so pretty