Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers

Help your learners get a good grasp on grammar. An insightful pre-test allows teachers to learn about their young writers' knowledge of the building blocks of grammar, so they can begin building a unit of study. It includes a...

Are your young grammarians misplacing or dangling their participles? The 17 sentences on this worksheet provide participants practice with pesky participles. 

Introduce your students to adjectives, adverbs, and the differences between them with this helpful grammar presentation. Though it appears long at 79 slides, note that each slide is doubled, with the first slide asking a question and the...

Misplaced modifiers are a common grammar error, but can your learners identify when a modifier can interfere with a reader's understanding? Watch a short and entertaining video from Ted Ed that illustrates misplaced modifiers, as well as...

Make sure your pupils exercise their grammar muscles with this collection of worksheets. Organized into units, the packet covers everything from the parts of speech to sentence structure to punctuation.

This tutorial focuses on modifiers using three slideshows: modifiers, dangling modifiers, and misplaced modifiers and printed information about adjectives and adverbs. Each slideshow defines the term, gives examples, and provides...

This tutorial provides a slideshow focusing on modifiers; it defines them, explains dangling and misplaced modifiers, gives examples, and tells how to prevent them. There is also a short automated slideshow of a practice example and its...

Learn about different types of modifiers through information, examples and a video. Then learn what dangling and misplaced modifiers are and how to correct them. [1:37]

This slideshow lesson focuses on misplaced modifiers; it defines them and explains the difference between misplaced and dangling modifiers. It then provides a list of sentences for students to practice identifying misplaced and dangling...

This lesson focuses on dangling modifiers including defining them, identifying them, viewing examples, and correcting them. Real Player is required.