Exercise: Moving misplaced modifiers for clarity

EXERCISE 48.1

Revise each of the following sentences by moving any misplaced modifiers so that they clearly modify the words they should.

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    Screeching strings told the audience that the killer was coming after the opening credits.
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    Hanging on by a thread, the five-year-old finally lost her tooth.