22.1 Section Title
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You must read each slide, and complete any questions on the slide, in sequence.
Exercise S3-2
Awkward and misplaced modifiers
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In each pair, click on the sentence in which all modifiers clearly refer to the word(s) they modify.
Click Submit after each question to see feedback and to record your answer. After you have finished every question, your answers will be submitted to your instructor’s gradebook. You may review your answers by returning to the exercise at any time. (An exercise reports to the gradebook only if your instructor has assigned it.)
Example
Question
22.1
Correct. The adverb nearly is properly placed before the word it modifies, half.
For more help, see sections S3-a to S3-d.
Sorry. The adverb nearly should come before the word it modifies, half.
For more help, see sections S3-a to S3-d.
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Question
22.2
Correct. The modifier at night clearly modifies the verb hunt.
For more help, see sections S3-a to S3-d.
Sorry. The modifier at night does not clearly modify either lions or hunt.
For more help, see sections S3-a to S3-d.
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Question
22.3
Correct. There is no reason in this sentence for the adverb more carefully to split the infinitive to watch.
For more help, see sections S3-a to S3-d.
Sorry. The adverb more carefully is unnecessarily awkward in the infinitive to watch.
For more help, see sections S3-a to S3-d.
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Question
22.4
Correct. The modifier called Walking in Place correctly modifies sculpture.
For more help, see sections S3-a to S3-d.
Sorry. The modifier called Walking in Place does not properly modify women.
For more help, see sections S3-a to S3-d.
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Question
22.5
Correct. This sentence has no misplaced modifier.
For more help, see sections S3-a to S3-d.
Sorry. The phrase smoking a cigarette cannot properly modify horse.
For more help, see sections S3-a to S3-d.
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