Week 11 Tutorial Identify And Correct Misplaced And Dangling Modifiers

CC2040 English for Academic Studies (Health Care) How to Identify and Correct Misplaced Modifiers and Dangling Modifiers

Step 1

Problematic Sentence

Your company will be offered ten complimentary tickets to the Ocean Park, as a sponsor of our charity show.

Step 2

Which is the Is the element to be modifier? modified present or (usually an "add-on'' missing? to the basic (identify who or what sentence) is to be modified)

"as a sponsor of our Present, but in the charity show" wrong place

Standing at the entrance, "Standing at the the music of the band could entrance" be heard.

Missing, not in the sentence

Type of Mistake

How to Fix It

Correction

Remarks

Move the modifier next to the element to be modified. Misplaced (Some parts of the Modifier sentence might need to be re-written, although this should be kept to a minimum.)

Dangling Modifier

As a sponsor of our charity show, your company will be offered ten complimentary (1) Avoid altering tickets to the Ocean Park. the meaning of the original sentence; (2) Remember to check if the rewritten sentence is Create an element to Standing at the entrance, I correct in both be modified and add it could hear the music of the grammar and punctuation. to the sentence. band. (Quite often, the OR element to be added is As I was standing at the already implied in the entrance, the music of the original sentence.) band could be heard.

William Tsang 2009