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Watch Your Misplaced Modifiers — Importance of Positioning in English Sentences

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© Ugur Akinci

Just like in life, positioning is important in writing as well.

Place the wrong modifier in the wrong spot, and the meaning of your whole sentence changes and you end up creating the wrong impression for no good reason at all.

Sometimes even professional writers writing [...]

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Mother of All Dictionaries and Thesauruses: Wordnik.com

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© Ugur Akinci

http://www.wordnik.com is a special kind of dictionary. It not only provides the dictionary definition of a word but the following as well:

Examples Etymology Synonyms – Words with the same meaning Antonyms – Words with the opposite meaning Hypernyms – Words that are more generic or [...]

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Misplaced Modifier in the News Story About Libya

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© Ugur Akinci

Here is a misplaced modifier from a recent news story:

“Jubilant Libyans clambered over Gaddafi’s iconic statue of a fist crushing a U.S. plane which was built after he fended off airstrikes in 1986.”

Can you tell what’s wrong with this sentence?

It reads as though [...]

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