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Misplaced Modifiers
Stacy Christiansen
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Misplaced modifiers result from failure to make clear what is being modified. Illogical or ambiguous placement of a word or phrase can usually be avoided by placing the modifying word or phrase ...
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Modifiers
Stacy Christiansen
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
A modifier describes another word or word group. Words, phrases (groups of words without a subject or predicate, usually introduced by a preposition or conjunction), and clauses (groups of words with ...
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Verbal Phrase Danglers
Stacy Christiansen
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
A participle is a verb form used as an adjective. A dangling participle implies an actor but fails to indicate correctly who or what that actor is. The following examples of dangling participles ...
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