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Something to Keep in Mind when writing personal profiles: Misplaced Modifiers

Something to Keep in Mind when writing personal profiles: Misplaced Modifiers. C&I 216 University High School. Why is this information relevant to you?. When writing personal profiles, you will be using a writing style that is more creative than what you would use for news or sports stories.

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Something to Keep in Mind when writing personal profiles: Misplaced Modifiers

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  1. Something to Keep in Mind when writing personal profiles:Misplaced Modifiers C&I 216 University High School

  2. Why is this information relevant to you? • When writing personal profiles, you will be using a writing style that is more creative than what you would use for news or sports stories. • You will have the opportunity to use your language to paint a picture of the person or other subject that you will be writing about; therefore, it is important to use modifiers correctly.

  3. What is a modifier? • In grammar, we use the term “modifier” for any word or phrase that MODIFIES a word, phrase, or clause. • There are three types of modifiers: • Adjective: Modify nouns and pronouns (The brown dog) • Adverbs: Modify verbs (The wind blew briskly) • Modifier Phrases: Modify a person or action (Looking at the clock, Jack realized he was late.)

  4. So, then what is a misplaced modifier? • Whenever the modifier and the word, phrase, or clause it is placed in a way that it is modifying a part of speech other than intended, we call that a MISPLACED MODIFIER. • Note: The word modifier and the word it is modifying should be next to each other in the sentence.

  5. Examples of misplaced modifiers: • On the way home from the store, Mary found a gold man’s watch. • Crying out in haunting voices, the house held many spooks.

  6. More Examples… • The torn student’s notebook lay on the desk. • Suzy ate a cold bowl of cereal this morning for breakfast.

  7. And More Examples… • We ate the sandwiches that we brought slowly. • The car salesman sold the convertible to the couple with leather seats. • Three waiters talked loudly behind the restaurant smoking cigarettes. • Ashley piled all of the clothes into the hamper that she had worn.

  8. CAUTION!!! CAUTION!!! CAUTION!!! • Avoid correcting misplaced modifiers that result in sentences with multiple meanings. • The teacher said on Monday she would return our papers. • Meaning #1: The teacher said she would return our papers on Monday. • Meaning #2: On Monday, the teacher said she would return our papers.

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