Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers
This type of error occurs when a modifier is too far from the word it modifies.
What is a misplaced modifier?
Identify the error in this sentence: 'I don't have no homework.'
What is a double negative?
This form of an adjective is used to compare two items.
What is the comparative degree?
What year was the Brown vs. Board of Education decision made?
What is 1954?
This term refers to the main idea or message of a text.
What is the theme?
Identify the error: 'Walking in the park, the flowers were beautiful.'
What is a dangling modifier?
Fix this double negative: 'She didn't see nothing.'
What is 'She didn't see anything.'?
This form is used when describing the extreme quality of one among three or more items.
What is the superlative degree?
This was the main issue challenged in Brown vs. Board of Education.
What is racial segregation in public schools?
This type of question asks for information stated directly in the text.
What is a literal question?
Rewrite the sentence to correct the error: 'She served a dish to the children that was cold.'
What is 'She served the children a dish that was cold.'?
Identify the problem in this sentence: 'Nobody never helps me.'
What is a double negative?
The adjective form for comparing 'quick' in the superlative is?
What is 'quickest'?
This amendment was cited in the Brown vs. Board decision as being violated by segregation.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Identify the literary device: 'The trees danced in the wind.'
What is personification?
Identify the misplaced modifier: 'We found the ring in the garden that has been missing for months.'
What is 'that has been missing for months'?
Correct the sentence: 'He can't hardly wait for the party.'
What is 'He can hardly wait for the party.'?
Provide the positive, comparative, and superlative forms of the adjective 'good.'
What are 'good, better, best'?
Name one impact of the Brown vs. Board decision on American society.
What is 'It helped to inspire the Civil Rights Movement'?
These are words or phrases surrounding an unfamiliar word that help clarify its meaning.
What are context clues?
Correct the error in this sentence: 'While typing, the phone rang on the desk.'
What is 'The phone rang on the desk while I was typing.'?
Explain why 'I don't need no help' is incorrect.
What is 'It uses a double negative, implying a positive statement.'?
Use the adjective 'beautiful' in its comparative form in a sentence.
What is 'She is more beautiful than her sister.'?
The Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. Board overturned this previous ruling.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Explain how making inferences enhances reading comprehension.
What is 'It helps readers understand implicit meanings and make predictions'?