English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 57

Underline the misplaced word or words in each sentence. Write M for misplaced modifier or C for correct in front of each sentence.
1. ______ Rita found it difficult to mount the horse wearing tight jeans.
2. ______ Rita, wearing tight jeans, found it difficult to mount the horse.
3. ______ I noticed a crack in the window walking into the delicatessen.
4. ______ Walking into the delicatessen, I noticed a crack in the window.
5. ______ The biology teacher told us there would be a pop quiz with an evil grin.
6. ______ With an evil grin, the biology teacher told us there would be a pop quiz.
7. ______ I almost caught a hundred lightning bugs.
8. ______ I caught almost a hundred lightning bugs.
9. ______ In a secondhand store, Willie found a television set that had been stolen from me last month.
10. _______ Willie found a television set in a secondhand store that had been stolen from me last month.
11. ______ Willie found, in a secondhand store, a television set that had been stolen from me last month.
12. ______ In his shrillest voice, the reporter yelled a question at the departing mayor.
13. _______ The reporter yelled a question at the departing mayor in his shrillest voice.
14. _______ The president was quoted on the NBC Evening News as saying that the war was about to end.
15. ________ The president was quoted as saying that the war was about to end on the NBC Evening News.