Practice with Modifiers

 

The following are deeply troubled sentences: (answers are below)

 

Let me know if you'll meet me at the party by phone or fax.

 

She threw her life before an onrushing bus which she had just decided to take.

 

Rearranging her hair, the empty night loomed endlessly and gaped blankly before her.

 

Before pasting his photograph into her notebook, a love note was handed to her.

 

To be completely satisfying, you should arrange your date to include several other sins as well.

 

While dreaming of orangutans and optometry, her slumbers were interrupted by the clash of a loud brass band.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers:

 

Let me know by phone or fax if you'll meet me at the party.(you'll notify me by phone or fax--not the party will take place near the phone or fax)

 

Just deciding to take her life, she threw it before an onrushing bus. Or...She threw her life, which she had just decided to take, before an onrushing bus (she is taking her life--not a bus)

 

As she sat rearranging her hair, the empty night loomed endlessly and gaped blankly before her.  Or...The empty night loomed endlessly and gaped blankly before her while she sat rearranging her hair. (she--not the empty night--is loomed endlessly and gaped)

 

Before pasting his photograph into her notebook, she was handed a love note. (she--not a love note--pasted his photograph)

 

To be completely satisfying, your date should include several other sins as well. (your date should be satisfying--not you)

 

While she was dreaming of orangutans and optometry, her slumbers were interrupted by the clash of a loud brass band. (she was dreaming--not her slumbers)

 

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