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Misplaced, Squinting And Dangling Modifiers

Exercise 3 Misplaced, Squinting and Dangling Modifiers

Rewrite the following sentences, avoiding misplaced, squinting or dangling modifiers.

There is an answer key on the next page. The first question is done for you.

1. The students packed donations of food and delivered them to the elderly who

lived locally in hampers.

The students packed donations of food in hampers and delivered them to the

elderly who lived locally.

2. He had almost lost all the buttons off his coat.

3. Convicted of murdering his wife, the judge sentenced him to life imprisonment.

4. Most accidents take place when tired.

5. When at university, my high marks in mathematics attracted the attention of my

professor.

6. Previously viewed as an exploration of the unconscious, critics now also see Alice

in Wonderland as social and political satire.

7. Standing at the hotel window, the yachts with their colourful spinnakers raced

across the bay.

8. Vacations abroad are very inexpensive when working for a hotel chain.

9. I saw descending a fire escape a policeman.

10. There was a discussion yesterday on the incidence of suicide among students in

the Dean’s office.

Misplaced, Squinting And Dangling Modifiers