Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

Are you looking for resources to supplement your grammar lesson? Use this lesson on misplaced and/or dangling modifiers in writing. Middle schoolers complete twenty multiple choice questions where they must find the sentence that has no...

You don't want to leave your modifier dangling! Using this worksheet, you can help students on their way to understanding how to modify sentences and to eliminate dangling modifiers.

Avoid dangling and misplaced modifiers with a thorough series of review activities. Middle schoolers identify modifiers in sentences and label them as either dangling or misplaced. Some activities prompt them to finish sentences or to...

To demonstrate their understanding of a main idea and of text structures, learners read six paragraphs, draft a sentence explaining the main idea of the passage, create a title for the passage, and form a graphic organizer that...

What is a dangling modifier anyway? Help your class identify this common error by showing this presentation. After introducing both a dangling and misplaced modifier, suggestions for correcting the errors are given. The last two slides...

Give your sentences more clarity by learning to avoid misplaced modifiers, dangling modifiers, and the passive voice. Review parallel structure as well. Plenty of examples are shown, providing utmost clarity.

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...

Are your pupils leaving their modifiers dangling? Or perhaps they've simply misplaced them. Help your class handle their modifiers properly by showing them a short informational video. The video includes definitions of the grammatical...

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