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Dangling Modifiers
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Possessives
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Whatever I Feel Like Asking
100
Whether or not this sentence contains a misplaced modifier: Hoping for a victory, the trophy was within my sights.
What is YES?
100
The correct options: I am better (then/than) my sister, (who/whom) is three years older.
What is "than" and "who."
100
The correct way to punctuate this sentence: "Susans brother is a very nice man."
What is "Susan's"?
100
The name of Mariam and Laila's husband
What is Rasheed?
100
The adjective in this sentence (excluding articles): "I was very surprised to find that the baseball glove given to me by Angela had disappeared."
What is "baseball"?
200
Whether or not this sentence has a misplaced modifier: Feeling a little bit sick, I went home for the day.
What is No?
200
The correct options: "I should (of/have) been more honest about (who/whom) I wanted to ask me to prom."
What is "have" and "whom"?
200
The correct way to punctuate this sentence: "The suns rays are very warm."
What is "sun's"?
200
From where the title of the novel comes.
What is a poem?
200
To make this a complete sentence without altering the word, you'd need to place this punctuation mark after the word "plumber": "My friend John is a plumber my other friend, Mac, is a middle school principal."
What is a semi-colon?
300
Why this is a confusing modifier: Mr. Sweasy was really angry with Christian, reaching for a pen to write a detention slip.
What is [VARIOUS WAYS TO SAY THIS] "The 'reaching for a pen..." modifier is closest to "Christian" and wants to attach itself there?
300
The correct option: (Who/whom) do you think you are, may I ask (then/than)?
What is WHO and THEN?
300
The correct way to punctuate this sentence: The many leaves fell on the ground.
What is CORRECT AS IS?
300
The name of the city where MOST of the story takes place
What is Kabul?
300
The year Shakespeare was born
What is 1564?
400
How to fix this erroneous modifier: Walking to the movies, the cloudburst drenched Jim.
What is [MULTIPLE CORRECT ANSWERS]?
400
Why this is a problem: A need to cover her pregnancy, a lack of other options, and feeling grateful for Rasheed taking care of her might have all contributed to Laila's desire to marry so quickly.
What is a lack of parallel structure ("a NOUN" followed by "a NOUN" followed by verb phrase)
400
The correct way to punctuate this sentence: Marcus test paper was taken off of this desk."
What is "Marcus's test paper was taken off of his desk"?
400
Besides the United States and coalition forces, the other major nation which invaded Afghanistan in the second half of the 20th Century
What is Afghanistan?
400
The adverb in this sentence: The large man saw his sister engulfed in flames, so he quickly threw down his Galaxy Note.
What is "quickly"?
500
How to fix this erroneous modifier: For my father for Christmas, I purchased a gold man's watch.
What is "alternate the words 'gold' and 'watch'"?
500
How to fix this: Before going to bed, I want to take a bath, to brush my teeth, and work on my homework."
What is EITHER "...I want to take a bath, to brush my teeth, and to work on my homework" OR "...I want to take a bath, brush my teeth, and work on my homework."
500
The correct way to punctuate this sentence: There are billions of galaxies in the universe, and the billions of galaxies stars all number in the billions as well.
What is "There are billions of galaxies in the universe, and the billions of galaxies' stars all number in the billions as well.
500
The famous, ancient artwork destroyed by the Taliban
What are the Bamiyhan Buddhas?
500
The name of the actor who played Severus Snape in the HARRY POTTER films
Who was Alan Rickman?