2015-09-08

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TED-Ed

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-misused-modifiers-can-hurt-your-writing-emma-bryce

Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence—which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren’t linked clearly enough to the words they’re actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity. Emma Bryce navigates the sticky world of misplaced, dangling and squinting modifiers.

Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Karrot Animation.