Warm-up Exercises

Warm-up Exercises

Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers

●A participial phrase is said to be "dangling" when the noun it is intended to modify is missing
from the sentence.

●Similarly a modifier is said to be misplaced when it is separated from the word it modifies.

●Edit the following sentences to eliminate such errors.

Open Ended

Looking from my bedroom window,
the horses frolicked in the meadow.

1.)

Looking from my bedroom window, I
watched the horses frolicking in the
meadow.

2.)

This bank accepts deposits from
elementary school children of any
size.

2.)

This bank accepts deposits of any
size from elementary school children.

Open Ended

The professor made some astounding
comments about politics rising from
his desk.

3.)

Rising from his desk, the professor
made some astounding comments
about politics.

Open Ended

The landlord told all the tenants he
was raising their rent yesterday.

4.)

Yesterday, the landlord told all the
tenants he was raising their rent.

Open Ended

Oozing across the floor my mother
gazed with dismay at the contents of
the broken jars.

5.)

My mother gazed with dismay at the
contents of the broken jars oozing
across the floor.