Modifiers Retest

Sucking with its powerful mouth, ...

• the vacuum cleaned dog hair and crumbs off the carpet.
• dog hair and crumbs disappeared from the carpet.

Working a minimum-wage job on the weekends, ...

• the expensive gifts that his girlfriend Jessica required couldn't be purchased with Jeff's limited funds.
• Jeff discovered that he couldn't afford the expensive gifts that his girlfriend Jessica required.

We enjoyed ...

• the crisp and spicy fried shrimp served on paper plates.
• the fried shrimp served on paper plates which were spicy and crisp.

Grooving to the music pumping through his earbuds, ...

• Robert danced on the sidewalk, which amused the passengers waiting for the bus.
• Robert's dance moves amused the passengers waiting for the bus.

Squeezing from the bottom of the tube, ...

• toothpaste splattered the mirror.
• Kiesha splattered the mirror with toothpaste.

Cursing her heavy bookbag, ...

• Julian's professors seldom made assignments in the thick textbooks.
• Julian lugged around thick textbook that his professors seldom asked him to use.
• the textbooks that Julian seldom needed made her shoulders sore.

Gobbling the slice of pizza, ...

• the complaints of Stacy's growling stomach finally stopped.
• Stacy's growling stomach ceased its complaints.
• Stacy quieted her growling stomach.

Inching toward the 12, ...

• Elegance watched the minute hand crawl through the last half hour of her work week.
• Elegance's work week would end once the minute hand reached the top of the clock.
• the minute hand crawled through the last half hour of Elegance's work week.

Snapping open, ...

• Angela was so happy that she brought an umbrella.
• protection from the rain made Angela so happy that she had brought an umbrella.
• the umbrella saved Angela from a soaking in the rain.

To keep her hair straight, ...

• Savannah applied abundant goopy product before she ventured out into the summer humidity.
• abundant goopy product was applied before venturing out into the summer humidity.
• the summer humidity was thwarted with abundant goopy product.