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Writing Pitfalls: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

Writing Pitfalls: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

by Stephanie Johnson | Mar 7, 2018 | tips

Modifiers are words or phrases that describe another word. Dangling modifiers do not clearly modify a word in a sentence.  What ends up happening, then, is something like the picture to the right. Take into account the following questions when you attempt to identify...

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