MODIFIERS

By: SONIKA & SHATAKSHI

What are Modifiers ?

A modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that modifies

—that is, gives extra information or describes about
another word in a sentence. For e.g. a dark blue
shirt, hot weather and white horse.

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Types of Modifiers:

• Adjectives: modify a noun

e.g. Cathy is the company’s first female CEO.

• Adverbs: modify a verb, adjective, or other adverbs.

e.g. I recently saw this movie.

• A modifier can even be a phrase or clause

e.g. She studied in the library. Here, the phrase "in the
library" gives us extra information about the verb,
"studied.“
• Limiting modifiers such as only and always enforce restrictions on the
subject, noun, or pronoun they immediately precede. Some examples of
limiting modifiers are just, almost, hardly, at first, simply. If a limiting
modifier does not precede the subject or noun, the meaning of an entire
sentence can change.

For example:
Only Jessica wants pizza.
This sentence implies that Jessica is the only person who wants pizza.

Jessica wants pizza only

Whereas this sentence indicates that Jessica wants pizza and nothing else
 VARIOUS KIND OF ERRORS IN MODIFIERS

• When a modifier is not modifying the correct word or illogically

modifying a word we call it a misplaced modifier.
For example:
Misplaced: They bought a car for my sister they call Pumpkin.
Correction: They bought a car they call Pumpkin for my sister.

• When a modifier is not modifying a specific word, we call it

a dangling modifier
For example:
Dangling: Racing across the finish line, her shoe fell off. 
Correction: Racing across the finish line, she lost her shoe.
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