● Exercise 5 ●

1. [W]e shall contribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.—Booker T. Washington

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   Exercise 5: Following are examples of authors’ skillful use of modifiers, both single words and phrases. In each, identify the modifier or modifiers, and discuss the effect they create. Then write a sentence or passage of your own, emulating the writer’s technique. - [W]e shall contribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.—Booker T. Washington
2. Although official statistics are not kept, the death rate among slaughterhouse sanitation crews is extraordinarily high. They are the ultimate in disposable workers: illegal, illiterate, impoverished, untrained.—Eric Schlosser

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   Exercise 5: Following are examples of authors’ skillful use of modifiers, both single words and phrases. In each, identify the modifier or modifiers, and discuss the effect they create. Then write a sentence or passage of your own, emulating the writer’s technique. - Although official statistics are not kept, the death rate among slaughterhouse sanitation crews is extraordinarily high. They are the ultimate in disposable workers: illegal, illiterate, impoverished, untrained.—Eric Schlosser
3. A thorough knowledge and judicious exercise of this power in lynching localities could many times effect a bloodless revolution.—Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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   Exercise 5: Following are examples of authors’ skillful use of modifiers, both single words and phrases. In each, identify the modifier or modifiers, and discuss the effect they create. Then write a sentence or passage of your own, emulating the writer’s technique. - A thorough knowledge and judicious exercise of this power in lynching localities could many times effect a bloodless revolution.—Ida B. Wells-Barnett
4. The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.—Stephen Crane

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   Exercise 5: Following are examples of authors’ skillful use of modifiers, both single words and phrases. In each, identify the modifier or modifiers, and discuss the effect they create. Then write a sentence or passage of your own, emulating the writer’s technique. - The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.—Stephen Crane
5. We are beginning to understand the individual cost that the schism between work and family exacts. We have not added up the national cost.—Madeleine M. Kunin

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   Exercise 5: Following are examples of authors’ skillful use of modifiers, both single words and phrases. In each, identify the modifier or modifiers, and discuss the effect they create. Then write a sentence or passage of your own, emulating the writer’s technique. - We are beginning to understand the individual cost that the schism between work and family exacts. We have not added up the national cost.—Madeleine M. Kunin
6. Instead of the macho, trigger-happy man our culture has perversely wanted him to be, the cowboy is more apt to be convivial, quirky, and softhearted.—Gretel Ehrlich

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   Exercise 5: Following are examples of authors’ skillful use of modifiers, both single words and phrases. In each, identify the modifier or modifiers, and discuss the effect they create. Then write a sentence or passage of your own, emulating the writer’s technique. - Instead of the macho, trigger-happy man our culture has perversely wanted him to be, the cowboy is more apt to be convivial, quirky, and softhearted.—Gretel Ehrlich
7. Half a mile from home, at the farther edge of the woods, where the land was highest, a great pine-tree stood, the last of its generation.—Sarah Orne Jewett

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   Exercise 5: Following are examples of authors’ skillful use of modifiers, both single words and phrases. In each, identify the modifier or modifiers, and discuss the effect they create. Then write a sentence or passage of your own, emulating the writer’s technique. - Half a mile from home, at the farther edge of the woods, where the land was highest, a great pine-tree stood, the last of its generation.—Sarah Orne Jewett