1. Deborah Waid June 12,2014 Managing Misplaced ModifiersManaging Misplaced Modifiers Misplaced Modifiers Dangling Modifiers Squinting Modifiers 2. Deborah Waid June 12,2014 Mispaced Modifiers Danglers UGH ?! Pronoun Antecedent Agreement !? Correct Modifer Usages in Sentence ?! Are Modifiers in the correct form !? 3. Q & A's Adjective modifiers modify______________? Adverb modifiers modify________________? Danglers dangle___where and why________? 4. Long-term goal Be able to identify and revise misplaced modifiers Use your TELL words wisely When writing it is Quality Over Quantity 5. The Following sentences are incorrectly structured; they have misplaced modifiers! Identify all errors and rewrite sentence correctly. Check your work carefully before submitting quiz. Quiz is due tomorrow by NOON sent via my email account: ddwaid45@gmail.com Short Quiz You can do it!! 6. Short Quiz...TaDa... Textbooks are priced at twenty dollars for this class. The research materials were written in Japanese that Yuki used. That application can be slow. Printed in boldface, students studied carefully. 7. Please Evaluate This Tutorial What new ideas did you learn about MMs...not M&Ms? What did you like most about this PPT? What do you like least ...? On a scale of 1-10 ( 10 highest) use your wiles and evaluate this tutorial. Print your name and sign your test. ... 8. Acknowledgements... Throughout my twenty plus years of teaching writing and reading to the hundreds of 6th grade to college level students, I have many trusted journals and books that have saved me from many teaching moments. By that I mean , we teachers do not remember every English grammar rule. English is considered by many foreigners who come to America and learn English as their second language as quite difficult. English has so many exceptions to the rules that it's no wonder that we teachers need to check our details carefully. I thank a very dog -eared book Grammar in Practice by Leslie J. Favor, Ph.D.