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Practice Dangling Modifiers

 

Rewrite any of the following sentences which contain dangling modifiers.

  1. While writing a speeding ticket, the patrol car began coasting down the hill.
  2. To reach New Garden Hall from the library, the road must be crossed.
  3. By remembering what you learn in class, your test scores should improve.
  4. To learn the game of chess, concentration and patience are helpful.
  5. Before serving the ice cream, the cake must be sliced.
  6. When well written, any student will enjoy reading a book.
  7. Generally speaking, the Guilford campus is attractive.
  8. To make a good score on the GRE, some preparation is necessary.

Using the following introductory modifiers, write complete sentences:

  1. After having read the last issue of Utne Reader, __________________________.
  2. While at the Michigan Women's Festival, _______________________________.
  3. Realizing the professor was looking directly at me, ______________________.
  4. Located one mile west of the campus, __________________________________.
  5. Before finishing his midterm essay, ___________________________________.

Grammarland

 

Clauses

Apostrophes & Possessives

Sentence Fragments

Dangling Modifiers

Coordination & Subordination

Commas, Dashes, & Parentheses

Parallelism

Subject/Verb Agreement

Semicolons

Comma Splices and Fused Sentences