Identifying Misplaced Modifiers
The faulty alarm nearly sounded five times yesterday.
What is nearly? The faulty alarm sounded nearly five times yesterday.
When we opened the leather woman's purse, we found the missing keys.
What is When we opened the woman's leather purse, we found the missing keys?
We ran from the hideous zombies we saw quickly.
What is We ran quickly from the hideous zombies we saw?
The fans stood in line to buy tickets to the show for twenty minutes.
What is The fans stood in line for twenty minutes to buy tickets to the show?
She saw a puppy and a kitten on the way to the store.
What is On the way to the store, she saw a puppy and a kitten?
I nearly made fifty dollars today.
What is nearly? I made nearly fifty dollars today.
The shocking Ferrari's paint job made everyone gasp.
What is The Ferrari's shocking paint job made everyone gasp?
The boy almost laughed at every joke he heard.
What is The boy laughed at almost every joke he heard?
We hiked through the forest wearing only light shirts and shorts.
What is Wearing only light shirts and shorts, we hiked through the forest?
We read that Janet was married in her last letter.
What is In her last letter, we read that Janet was married?
She almost failed every exam she took.
What is almost? She failed almost every exam she took.
The fisherman left his live sack of bait on the dock.
What is The fisherman left his sack of live bait on the dock?
The job scarcely took an hour to complete.
What is She failed almost every exam she took?
The gunslinger emptied the shells onto the dusty ground from his revolver.
What is The gunslinger emptied the shells from his revolver onto the dusty ground?
I heard yesterday that there was a grand revolution on the evening news.
What is On the evening news, I heard that there was a grand revolution yesterday?
Three law offices were reported robbed by the Atlanta police last week.
What is last week? Last week, the Atlanta police reported that three law offices were robbed.
The clerk, who was a good salesman, sold the scarf to the woman with the ugly red checkerboard pattern.
What is The clerk sold the scarf with the ugly red checkerboard pattern to the woman?
Only Mr. Johnson gave me $5 to clean all his sidewalks.
What is Mr. Johnson gave me only $5 to clean all his sidewalks?
Marian read a chilling article in "The New York Times" about the effects of mercury poisoning.
What is Marian read a chilling article about the effects of mercury poisoning in "The New York Times"?
Raymond wore his one collared shirt to the job interview, which was unfortunately stained with yellow mustard.
What is Raymond wore his one collared shirt, which was unfortunately stained with yellow mustard, to the job interview?
Sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, we anxiously watched the weather report for information about the hurricane on our satellite TV.
What is sailing in the Atlantic Ocean? We anxiously watched the weather report for information about the hurricane churning in the Atlantic Ocean.
The tiny man was staring at the incredibly gorgeous girl by the tall vending machine wearing dark glasses.
What is The tiny man was staring at the girl wearing dark glasses by the tall vending machine? OR
What is The tiny man wearing dark glasses was staring at the girl standing by the tall vending machine?
He nearly drove his big father's car for six hours that day.
What is He drove his father's big car for nearly six hours that day?
The governor made some insightful remarks about runaway inflation during her news conference.
What is During her news conference, the governor made some insightful remarks about runaway inflation?
Waiting for the slacker student who was late with another essay, Professor Meidell stood impatiently in the hallway in front of his classroom door.
What is Waiting for the slacker student who was late with another essay, Professor Meidell stood impatiently in the hallway in front of his classroom door?