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28 Modifier Position
Grammar
Question | Answer |
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28a. | Usually put a single-word modifier close to the word it modifies. |
28b. | Place a modifiying phrase in such a position that its relation to the part of the sentence that it modifiers will be unmistakably clear |
28c. | Do not place a modifier in such a position that it may modify either the words before it or the words after it |
28d. | Avoid dangling modifiers; modifiers that do not logically modify any word or words in the same sentence or that are not unmistakably connected with the word or words they modify |
28e. | Avoid dangling clauses. Be sure that the subject that could be supplied in the dependent clause in the same as that in the main clause. |
28f. | A relative clause should be place close to the noun or pronoun which it modifies. |
single word modifiers | not, almost, only, ever, never, again, often, nearly, hardly, always, just |