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	Dangling Modifiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Definition: A dangling modifier is a word or phrase that modifies a word not clearly stated in the sentence.
		She seems logically to be the one doing the action ("having finished"), and this sentence therefore does not have a dangling modifier.
		Related to dangling modifiers, squinting modifiers occur when the word modified is not clear or could be more than one word.
	www.sabri.org /Dangling-Modifiers.htm (477 words)

	Dangling Modifiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A dangling modifier is a word or phrase that fails to refer logically to any word in the sentence.
		Dangling modifiers are often found at the beginning of sentences and cause the reader to expect the subject of the next clause to name the actor.
		Dangling modifiers may be repaired either by naming the actor in the subject of the sentence or by naming the actor in the modifier phrase.
	www.csbsju.edu /writingcenters/handouts/dangling_modifiers.htm (435 words)

	DANGLING MODIFIERS. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
		The most typical is the dangling participial modifier, as in Opening the front door, the clock struck midnight.
		With dangling infinitives, dangling gerunds, and the like, the problem is essentially the same: the grammar of the sentence is at least technically ambiguous.
		Dangling modifiers of all sorts have long managed to get by in the best English and American literary company without being noticed.
	www.bartleby.com /68/11/1611.html (332 words)

	Academic Center: Grammar and Punctuation Handouts
		The dangling modifier is one of the most insidious and confusion-causing problems in the English language.
		Dangling modifiers usually occur when a group of words (most often a verbal phrase) is not clearly connected to the word it modifies.
		In this case the writer has fixed the dangling modifier by providing the sentence with a subject that can act as the actor in the modifier as well: I did both things--left the stadium and noticed the lights.
	www.uhv.edu /ac/grammar/dangling.asp (662 words)

	Dangling and Misplaced Modifieres
		A dangling modifier is a word or phrase modifying a term that has been omitted or to which it cannot easily be linked.
		To correct a dangling modifier, reword the sentence by either (1) changing the modifying phrase to a clause with a subject or (2) changing the subject of the sentence to the word that should be modified.
		A modifier is misplaced if it appears to modify the wrong part of the sentence or if we cannot be certain what part of the sentence the writer intended it to modifiy.
	www.uwf.edu /writelab/reviews/danglingandmisplaced.cfm (340 words)

	Modifiers
		A misplaced modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from the word it describes.
		At other times the dangling modifier is placed next to the wrong noun or noun substitute: a noun that it does not modify.
		Dangling modifiers may appear in a variety of forms.
	wwwnew.towson.edu /ows/modifiers.htm (578 words)

	Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges - Learning Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Definition: A dangling modifier is a word or word group that refers to (modifies) a word or phrase that has not been clearly stated in the sentence.
		Dangling Modifier: Relieved of your responsibilities at your job, your home should be a place to relax.
		dangling modifier: The experiment was a failure, having not studied the lab manual carefully.
	www.cgc.maricopa.edu /learning/center/modifiers.shtml (390 words)

	What is a misplaced modifier
		A misplaced modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from the word it modifies / describes.
		A dangling modifier is a phrase or clause that is not clearly and logically related to the word or words it modifies (i.e.
		Unlike a misplaced modifier, a dangling modifier cannot be corrected by simply moving it to a different place in a sentence.
	wwwnew.towson.edu /ows/moduleDangling.htm (810 words)

	Dangling modifier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In grammar, a dangling modifier or misplaced modifier is a word or phrase that is intended to modify one element of a sentence, but that — due to its placement — seems to modify another.
		Some such modifiers are fairly standard, and not considered dangling modifiers — "speaking of [topic]", for example, is commonly used as a transition from one topic to a related one — but this is not generally the case: in "Fuming, she left the room", "fuming" can only modify "she".
		It was no longer just an adverb modifying a verb, an adjective or another adverb as hitherto, but conveniently also one that modified the whole sentence, in order to convey the attitude of the speaker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dangling_modifier (544 words)

	dangling modifier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A dangling modifier (or dangling participle) is an "-ing" or "-ed" verb form made to modify an absent or distant noun rather than, as it should, the subject of a sentence's main clause.
		Dangling modifiers are easy to spot if you ask yourself who or what is doing the action of the participial verb.
		It does not modify "results" (the results are not based on something, rather something is based on the results).
	www.yale.edu /bass/wp/dm.html (303 words)

	Dangling Modifiers
		Dangling modifiers usually introduce sentences, contain a verb form, and imply but do not name a subject as the example above reveals.
		Dangling modifiers are especially likely when the verb in the main clause is in the passive voice instead of the active voice.--that is, when the verb expresses what is done to the subject instead of what the subject does.
		Like dangling modifiers, misplaced modifiers may be awkward, confusing, or even unintentionally funny.
	jade.ccccd.edu /cobb/modifiers.html (483 words)

	Language Log: Don't Dangle Your Participles in Public
		The rest have modifiers of other types -- six prepositional phrases, one infinitival, one relative clause, one reduced comparative -- plus one pronominal reference example that involves modifiers only because the pronoun is inside one, though this example does superficially resemble classic dangling-modifier cases.
		Modifiers should be close to the word they purport to modify." These statements culled from newspapers and magazines demonstrate what happens when a writer dangles his or her participles in public:"
		The short answer is that the "by"-phrase modifies a whole VP and that putting it after the VP is locating it next to the thing it modifies.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001174.html (2968 words)

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		The best general rule for avoiding misplaced modifiers is to place modifiers as close as possible to the words they are intended to modify.
		DANGLING MODIFIERS: Verbal phrases (gerund, participial, infinitive) which do not clearly and logically refer to a noun or pronoun in the sentence are called dangling modifiers.
		Exercise 1: In the following sentences underline the modifying phrases and/or subordinate clauses, and indicate whether the sentence is correct (C), or whether the sentence contains a misplaced (M) or dangling (D) modifier.
	www.washburn.edu /services/zzcwwctr/modifiers.wp51.txt (1134 words)

	Methodist University - The Dirty Dozen: Dangling Modifiers
		A dangling modifier is a modifier that does not relate sensibly to any word in the sentence.
		A modifier that begins a sentence must be followed immediately by the word it is meant to describe.
		If there is a modifier, make sure it is in the right place (as close as possible to the word or words being modified).
	www.methodist.edu /english/dd_dm.htm (287 words)

	Dangling Modifiers, Grammar Tech, English Department, Pittsburg State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Whenever you use a phrase in a sentence, you must be sure that the phrase really modifies the word that you intend for it to modify.
		The modifier is called dangling because it's too loosely tied to the sentence and, therefore, dangles.
		The introductory phrase should modify the subject of the sentence because it is positioned before that subject.
	www.pittstate.edu /engl/gt/sent05.html (409 words)

	Dangling Modifier Worksheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Modifiers are words or phrases that add detail to the sentence.
		Misplaced modifiers confuse readers because they're ambiguous; the readers can't tell which element in the sentence is being described.
		Dangling modifiers refer to elements that appear later in the sentence or not at all.
	web.mit.edu /21w732/www/Handouts/dangling-mod.htm (199 words)

	Left (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Check every modifier (whether a word, phrase, or clause) to make sure that it is as close as possible to the word it describes or relates to.
		Be on the lookout for misplaced modifiers that may confuse your readers by seeming to modify some other word, phrase, or clause.
		Check your draft for dangling modifiers: phrases hanging precariously from the beginning or end of a sentence, attached to no other word in the sentence.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /lunsford/error19.html (133 words)

	misplaced_modifiers
		Sometimes the problem is a dangling modifier, a modifier which has nothing in the sentence to modify.
		A misplaced modifier does modify some element in the sentence, but because of its position the relationship is not clear.
		Dangling modifiers appear most often at the beginning of a sentence.
	www.cameron.edu /~carolynk/misplaced_modifiers.html (304 words)

	Misplaced Modifier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Misplaced and dangling modifiers are phrases that are not located properly in relation to the words they modify.
		The two common types of modifier grammar errors are misplaced modifiers and dangling modifiers.
		Modifiers dangle when they are not logically connected to the main part of the sentence.
	ace.acadiau.ca /english/grammar/mmodifier.htm (291 words)

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		A squinting modifier is often, although not always, a result of an adverb’s ability to be placed nearly anywhere in a sentence.
		A dangling modifier is a modifier that does not modify anything in the sentence, although usually it implies what it is modifying.
		Split infinitives occur when a modifier is positioned in between the to and the verb form; this sort of construction is to be avoided.
	www.msvu.ca /student_affairs/wrc/handouts/modifiers.asp (533 words)

	Modifiers (Misplaced, Dangling, and Squinting Modifiers)
		This modifier error occurs when a modifier is placed between two words and could modifier either one.
		In other words, the modifier is squinting--looking two directions--to see which word it is supposed to modify.
		Correct a squinting modifier error by repositioning the modifier to place it next to the word it modifies.
	owlet.letu.edu /grammarlinks/modifiers/modifier2d.html (200 words)

	Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
		The dangling modifier, a persistent and frequent grammatical problem in writing, is often (though not always) located at the beginning of a sentence.
		A dangling modifier is usually a phrase or an elliptical clause -- a dependent clause whose subject and verb are implied rather than expressed -- that functions as an adjective but does not modify any specific word in the sentence, or (worse) modifies the wrong word.
		Such introductory adjective phrases, because of their position, automatically modify the first noun or pronoun that follows the phrase -- in this case, "it." The connection in this case is illogical because "it" was not raised in Nova Scotia.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/msplmod.html (913 words)

	Fiction Factor - Dangling Modifiers
		It does not directly relate to the subject of the main clause, and so, it would be considered a dangling modifier.
		A dangling modifier is a phrase or clause that modifies a word not clearly stated in the sentence, or that does not connect grammatically with what it is intended to modify.
		Many dangling modifiers occur at the beginning of sentences - often as introductory clauses or phrases, but can also appear at the end.
	www.fictionfactor.com /articles/dangling.html (913 words)

	CCBC - Modifiers, Dangling & Misplaced (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A modifier must be logically placed in the sentence, usually immediately before the word or words it modifies.
		A misplaced modifier is a modifier placed too far away from the word it modifies.
		Because the modifier in each of these sentences is too far from the word it describes, it attaches itself to the wrong word.
	www.ccbc.cc.pa.us /lc/OWL/Usage/MODdan.html (392 words)

	Hamilton College - Writing Center - The Fifth Deadly Sin: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
		We confuse our readers if we fail to connect modifiers (words that describe or limit other words) to the words they modify; be sure to place modifiers next to the words they modify.
		A misplaced modifier is a word or phrase that due to its placement mistakenly refers to the wrong word.
		A dangling modifier is a (usually introductory) word or phrase that the writer intends to use as a modifier of a following word, but the following word is missing.
	www.hamilton.edu /academics/resource/wc/sins/sin5.html (463 words)

	Writing ModifiersMM4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The answer to a dangling modifier is to undangle it—rewrite your sentence so that the ambiguity is cleared up.
		First cousin to the dangling modifier, a misplaced modifier is set so far from what it refers to (or modifies), confusion or ambiguity arises.
		The answer to a misplaced modifier is to move it closer to its referent.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~mee/writing_modifiersmm4.htm (607 words)

	Modifier Placement
		When a modifier improperly modifies something, it is called a "dangling modifier." This often happens with beginning participial phrases, making "dangling participles" an all too common phenomenon.
		SQUINTING MODIFIER: A third problem in modifier placement is described as a "squinting modifier." This is an unfortunate result of an adverb's ability to pop up almost anywhere in a sentence; structurally, the adverb may function fine, but its meaning can be obscure or ambiguous.
		Modifier Placement II Where to use "only" in a sentence is a moot question, one of the mootest questions in all rhetoric.
	grammar.ccc.commnet.edu /grammar/modifiers.htm (645 words)

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