Dangling Modifiers

my car windshield Or a deer hit just my car

windshield Well welcome to the wonderful world of modifiers If

you couldn't guess a modifier is a word or phrase

that modify another word or phrase Yeah sometimes if you're

not careful you can misplace a modifier A misplaced modifier

is a modifier that modifies the wrong thing A modifier

khun b a single word like only just or almost

let's Look at a couple of examples you could say

mike ate only venison or mike only ate venison In

these examples the word on ly modifies the word behind

it giving these senses completely different meanings if you say

like a lonely venison what you mean is that mike

ate nothing but dead dear If you say mike on

ly ate venison However what you mean is that the

only thing mike did with the deer meat was eating

He didn't cook it and he didn't buy it from

his local grocer You could also use a short phrase

at the beginning of a sentence as a modifier Here's

the formula short modifying phrase plus comma Plus the rest

of the sentence gets you there Just remember whatever the

modifying phrase were first who should immediately follow the comma

Here are some examples While you could say freshly cooked

lisa left the venison said cool down what you really

mean is freshly cooked the venison was left bite elisa

to cool them well you might be tempted to say

covered in flies the highway crew pulled the deer carcass

off the road What you really mean is covered in

flies The deer carcass was pulled off the road by

the highway crew When it comes to modifiers the smartest

thing you could do is pay attention to what you're

writing You don't want to misplace a modifier any more

than you want to misplace any leftover bam really bambi 00:02:26.47 --> [endTime] is that nice