Libas Sud Integrated School

Libas Sud, San Miguel, Surigao del Sur

S.Y. 2022-2023

I. Objectives:
At the end of the period, the students shall have been able to:
a) Identify what are modifiers
b) Appreciate by making sentences out of the given words
c) Correct the misplaced modifiers in the sentences

II. Subject matter:

a) Learning Competency: Use appropriate modifiers
b) Topic: Appropriate use of modifiers
c) Materials: Visual Aid, Paper, Pen
d) References: http://myenglishgrammar.com/lesson-12-modifiers.html
https://www.brighthubeducation.com/english-homework-help/99887-guide-
to-learning-about-modifiers-in-the-english-language/
https://aaupnv.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/modifier-lesson-plan.pdf

III. Learning procedures

A. Preliminaries
 Prayer
 Checking of attendance
 Recap
- The previous lesson was about positions of topic sentence
B. Preparatory Activity
- Presentation of the new lesson
- Lead them to defining and identifying modifiers
C. Motivational Activity
- Pictures will be shown in front
- Students will be asked to say something about the picture
- It may be a phrase or a sentence

Pictures to be Shown
D. Analysis: The teacher will ask question about the things that the students have
observed in the pictures. As the students give their observation the teacher will
slowly lead the students to the lesson.

Possible Answers of Students

1. A broken family.
2. A happy family.
3. A mother with a curly hair.
4. An angry man and woman.
5. Woman with a white hair.

E. Abstraction
A modifier is a single word or a group of words which can be a phrase or
clause. It describes or provides more information about another word which is a
subject, verb, adjective, adverb, object, complement or another modifier. Modifying
words are mostly adjectives and adverbs. As adjectives, they modify nouns and
pronouns, and as adverbs, they modify adjectives, verbs and other adverbs. A noun
too can be used as a modifier of another noun.

A modifier is an optional element in a clause or sentence. Its removal will not

affect the clause or sentence grammatically. A modifier can be easily misused by
misplacing it in a sentence so that it wrongly modifies another word or noun. To
avoid such an eventuality, a modifier must be placed as close as possible to the word
that it modifies.
A modifier can come before or after the noun that it modifies.

Example:

1. A fat baby
2. The baby was fat.
 The first example shows the adjective fat modifying and coming before the
noun baby. The second example uses the linking verb was linking the adjective fat to
the subject baby. When a linking verb is used, the modifying adjective will come
after the noun that it modifies. Same as the first example, fat modifies baby in this
second example.

F. Application
Directions:
- Make a sentence out of the given words

1. Cat – heavy (somehow)

2. Rug – dirty (quite)
3. Gardener – worked (wonderfully)
4. Mother – beautiful (very)
5. Floor – wet (near the sink)

G. Assignment
Directions:
- With a partner, get a ½ crosswise
- Correct the sentences by placing the modifiers correctly

1. The young girl was walking the dog in a short skirt. (incorrect)
The young girl in a short skirt was walking the dog. (correct)
2. In Canada each year, one million people almost get cancer. (incorrect)
In Canada each year, almost one million people get cancer. (correct)
3. That child broke the vase in the purple jumper. (incorrect) 
That child in the purple jumper broke the vase. (correct)

Prepared By: Approved By:

Chlarez I. Impuesto Joanne S. Espinosa
Teacher I School Head