The document provides a motivation activity to identify sentences with dangling modifiers. It lists 8 sentences and asks the reader to identify whether each sentence is written correctly (C) or incorrectly (IC). The sentences describe situations involving studying an assignment, decoding a secret message, music intended to relax distracting during a test, gifts received as a child, being unable to row due to strong winds, a grocery bag breaking while walking home, ingredients needed to prepare a meal, and a deer jumping in front of a car while driving.
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Motivation Activity for the Topic Dangling Modifiers
The document provides a motivation activity to identify sentences with dangling modifiers. It lists 8 sentences and asks the reader to identify whether each sentence is written correctly (C) or incorrectly (IC). The sentences describe situations involving studying an assignment, decoding a secret message, music intended to relax distracting during a test, gifts received as a child, being unable to row due to strong winds, a grocery bag breaking while walking home, ingredients needed to prepare a meal, and a deer jumping in front of a car while driving.
The document provides a motivation activity to identify sentences with dangling modifiers. It lists 8 sentences and asks the reader to identify whether each sentence is written correctly (C) or incorrectly (IC). The sentences describe situations involving studying an assignment, decoding a secret message, music intended to relax distracting during a test, gifts received as a child, being unable to row due to strong winds, a grocery bag breaking while walking home, ingredients needed to prepare a meal, and a deer jumping in front of a car while driving.
Motivation Activity for the topic Dangling Modifiers
Direction: Write C if the sentence is written correctly and write IC if it is not.
1. Studying the assignment carefully, several problems became obvious. 2. Written in secret code, Ted had to decipher the message before he could understand it. 3. Intended to provide relaxation, the music seemed to distract my attention when I took a test. 4. As a child, my parents gave me many elaborate and expensive gifts. 5. Hampered by strong winds, I was unable to row the boat to shore. 6. Walking home from the store, the grocery bag broke and slipped from my arms. 7. To prepare this meal, only a few ingredients are needed. 8. While driving down the highway, a deer jumped in front of the car. 1. Studying the assignment carefully, several problems became obvious. 2. Written in secret code, Ted had to decipher the message before he could understand it. 3. Intended to provide relaxation, the music seemed to distract my attention when I took a test. 4. As a child, my parents gave me many elaborate and expensive gifts. 5. Hampered by strong winds, I was unable to row the boat to shore. 6. Walking home from the store, the grocery bag broke and slipped from my arms. 7. To prepare this meal, only a few ingredients are needed. 8. While driving down the highway, a deer jumped in front of the car.