Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

What is a dangling modifier?

• When there is no subject in the sentence that is being described (you have to add it)

• When there is the correct subject somewhere in the sentence, but not next to the modifier (you have to rearrange).

• A grammatically correct sentence

• When a semicolon is used incorrectly

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

Walking down the hallway, all the lockers were open.

• Misplaced modifier

• Dangling modifier

• Correct

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

Covered with mushrooms, sausage, and extra cheese, Morgan eagerly bit into the enormous slice of pizza.

• Misplaced modifier

• Dangling modifier

• Correct

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

Trevor gave a sculpture to his girlfriend that he had carved out of soap.

• Misplaced modifier

• Dangling modifier

• Correct

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

Which sentence contains a dangling modifier?

• The house was dark when I got home.

• I got home late.

• Coming home late, the house was dark.

• The house was dark.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

Where should the red modifier be placed?
Mary read that a wasp larva spins a cocoon in the encyclopedia.

• After cocoon

• After spins

• After wasp

• After read

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

What is the dangling modifier in the sentence below?
Running to catch the bus, his lunch box was dropped.

• was dropped

• his lunch box was dropped

• running to catch

• running to catch the bus

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

What is the dangling modifier? Before waking up, the lights were flickering in the room.

• Before waking up

• waking up

• the lights were flickering in the room

• were flickering

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

What is the misplaced modifier?
Covered in dirt, I gave my dog a bath. 

• a bath

• Covered in dirt

• Covered

• I gave my dog a bath

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

What is a misplaced modifier?

• A) A modifier that is incorrectly separated from the word it modifies

• B) A modifier that is missing from the sentence

• C) A modifier that is correctly placed

• D) A modifier that is used to join two sentences

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C