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Misplaced Modifiers.
Stacy Christiansen
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (11th ed.)
Misplaced modifiers result in 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 close to the word it modifies. Likewise, sometimes it is necessary for clarity to place an adverb within a verb phrase. Note the shift in meaning when the adverb is moved outside the verb phrase....
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Modifiers.
Stacy Christiansen
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (11th ed.)
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 a subject and verb within a compound or complex sentence) may all be modifiers. An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun. An adverb modifies a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or a clause. Clauses or phrases may serve as adjectives or adverbs....Verbal Phrase Danglers.
Stacy Christiansen
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (11th ed.)
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 illustrate the problem. A gerund is a verb form used as a noun (...View:
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