danglingmodifiersandmissedreferencs
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PPt on dangling modifiersTRANSCRIPT
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Pardon me, but your modifier is dangling!
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Having killed a man and served four years in prison, I feel Tom Joad is ripe to get into trouble.
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Yoko Ono will talk about her husband, John
Lennon, who was killed in an
interview with
Barbara Walters.
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After years of being lost under a pile of dusty books, Charles found the missing
treasure map.
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Plunging 1,000 feet into the gorge, we saw Yosemite Falls.
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A calf was born to a farmer with two heads.
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Some sources say shortly after his death Mao Tse
Tung had expressed a wish that his body be cremated.
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She died in the home in
which she was born at the age of 88.
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Reference Problems
Or, how I learned not to be ambiguous with my pronouns.
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When Lady Caruthers smashed the traditional bottle of champagne against the hull of the giant oil tanker, she slipped down the
runway, gained speed, rocketed into the water with a gigantic spray, and continued unchecked
toward the island.
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Guilt, vengeance, and bitterness can be emotionally destructive to you and your children. You must get rid
of them.
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The driver had a narrow escape, as a broken board penetrated his windshield and just missed his head. This had to be removed
before he could be released from the vehicle.
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“He’s the horse of a lifetime,” said trainer PackyLawrence. He’ll retire after today’s race and be shipped
to Kentucky, where he’ll begin a career at stud.