Modifiers are great, but you can't just throw them into a sentence all willy-nilly. In fact, modifiers that aren't correctly placed can make a sentence really confusing. There are two types of modifier mistakes you should avoid like the plague.
These evil modifiers go by the blood-chilling names of: misplaced modifiers (shudder!) and dangling modifiers (gasp!).
Misplaced Modifiers
Misplaced modifiers don't describe or explain the words the writer intended them to—instead, they accidentally describe or explain something else.A misplaced modifier often appears to modify the...
Dangling Modifiers
Dangling modifiers are just as gross and ridiculous as they sound. Dangling… just… ew.You know you have a serious problem when the person or thing you are trying to modify isn't even in your s...