Grammar Quick Fix: Correcting Misplaced Modifiers PDF

HMH Into Literature. Grammar Quick © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Fix. How to Correct Misplaced Modifiers Company Learn. How to Correct Misplaced Modifiers. A modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that describes or gives more specific...

HMH Into Literature. Grammar Quick © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Fix. How to Correct Misplaced Modifiers Company Learn. How to Correct Misplaced Modifiers. A modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that describes or gives more specific information about the meanings of other words. Adjectives and adverbs are common modifiers. Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns. The tall house stood on the hill. (The adjective tall modifies the noun.) Image: The wooden frame of house under construction. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Builders carefully construct houses. (The adverb carefully modifies the verb.) The house was quite strong. (The adverb quite modifies the Company adjective.) Learn. How to Correct Misplaced Modifiers. A misplaced modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that is placed too far away from whatever it is intended to modify. This error can make a sentence sound confusing and awkward. To correct, place the word, phrase, or clause closer to what it modifies. Misplaced: Kara Garcia was praised for her architecture in Image: An architect looks closely at the drawings on her desk. magazines. Revision: Kara Garcia was praised in magazines for her architecture. © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Misplaced: The inspector checked the building wearing the red windbreaker. Revision: The inspector wearing the red windbreaker checked Company the building. Learn. How to Correct Misplaced Modifiers. To correct a misplaced modifier, move the modifying word, phrase, or clause as closely as possible to what it modifies. Misplaced phrase: Unusual houses have been designed by architects on stilts. Revision: Unusual houses on stilts have been designed by architects. Image: Rear view of a house on stilts at the beach. Tip. Misplaced clause: Stilts that are in coastal areas elevate © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing houses. When a participle is at the beginning of a Revision: Stilts elevate houses that are in coastal areas. sentence, the subject it modifies should follow it as closely as possible. Built on sand, the Company house started to sink. Practice. How to Correct Misplaced Modifiers. Correct the errors in this passage. You have probably read about the 2005 flooding of New Orleans on the internet. After Hurricane Katrina, many people had to be rescued from rooftops with few belongings. People had climbed up to escape flood waters with their bare Image: A aerial view from a hands. When the hurricane was over, public officials helicopter in the sky as a military person surveys the flooding of houses after Hurricane Katrina. assessed the widespread devastation. Now many stilt houses that were once flooded in New Orleans hover above areas. © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Correct. How to Correct Misplaced Modifiers. You have probably read on the internet about the 2005 flooding of New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, many people with few belongings had to be rescued from rooftops. People had climbed up with their bare hands to escape flood waters. When the hurricane was over, public officials Image: A aerial view from a assessed the widespread devastation. Now many stilt houses helicopter in the sky as a military person surveys the flooding of houses after Hurricane Katrina. hover above areas that were once flooded in New Orleans. © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing What Changed? To correct the misplaced modifier, the phrase “on the internet” is moved to modify the verb read. The phrase “with a few belongings” is moved to modify the noun people. The phrase “with their bare hands” is moved to follow the adverb up. The Company phrase “hover above areas” is moved to modify the noun houses. Write. How to Correct Misplaced Modifiers. What real-life stories do know about how people respond to extreme weather? Describe the experience in at least three sentences. Make sure to use modifiers correctly. Use highlighting to mark the modifiers and their subjects. Click to start writing. Image: A dark, swirling tornado sheds debris as it moves along a deserted paved road.. © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company  Copyright and image credits. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company All rights reserved. No part of the material protected by this copyright may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, broadcasting or by any other information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the copyright owner unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law. 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