Danglingmodifiersandmissedreferencs

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PPt on dangling modifiers

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Pardon me, but your modifier is dangling!

Having killed a man and served four years in prison, I feel Tom Joad is ripe to get into trouble.

Yoko Ono will talk about her husband, John

Lennon, who was killed in an

interview with

Barbara Walters.

After years of being lost under a pile of dusty books, Charles found the missing

treasure map.

Plunging 1,000 feet into the gorge, we saw Yosemite Falls.

A calf was born to a farmer with two heads.

Some sources say shortly after his death Mao Tse

Tung had expressed a wish that his body be cremated.

She died in the home in

which she was born at the age of 88.

Reference Problems

Or, how I learned not to be ambiguous with my pronouns.

When Lady Caruthers smashed the traditional bottle of champagne against the hull of the giant oil tanker, she slipped down the

runway, gained speed, rocketed into the water with a gigantic spray, and continued unchecked

toward the island.

Guilt, vengeance, and bitterness can be emotionally destructive to you and your children. You must get rid

of them.

The driver had a narrow escape, as a broken board penetrated his windshield and just missed his head. This had to be removed

before he could be released from the vehicle.

“He’s the horse of a lifetime,” said trainer PackyLawrence. He’ll retire after today’s race and be shipped

to Kentucky, where he’ll begin a career at stud.