Identify which of the following sentences uses modifiers correctly;

a) kurt and his hockey teammates nearly cooked two hundred pancakes for the breakfast fundraising event.

d) Bridget decided to leave her career as an attorney and pursue acting during the meditation retreat.

Neither of these sentences uses modifiers correctly.

a) How do you "nearly" cook pancakes?

b) Is Bridget going to act during the retreat?

How about these ones? This modifiers are really confusing. Do you know of any website that will make them easy to understand?

1)Rudolph enjoys eating curries from the Indian delicatessen with a lot of spices.

2) On the phone, the telemarketer persuaded the new homeowners to purchase extended warranties on all their new appliances.

Thanks a lot

Modifiers should be as close as possible to the word they modify.

In sentence 1), it's the curries that have a lot of spices, not the delicatessen. It should be worded, "Rudolph enjoys eating curries with a lot of spices."

The second sentence is o.k.

These sites will help you.

http://www.towson.edu/ows/moduledangling.htm

http://aliscot.com/bigdog/misplaced.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/modifiers.htm

Ooooo, that Towson website is really good!

curries

To identify which of the sentences uses modifiers correctly, we need to understand what modifiers are and how they should be used in a sentence.

Modifiers are words or phrases that provide additional information about a subject or object in a sentence. They can be adjectives (describing words) or adverbs (describing words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs).

Now let's analyze the sentences:

a) "Kurt and his hockey teammates nearly cooked two hundred pancakes for the breakfast fundraising event."

In this sentence, we have the modifier "nearly" which is an adverb modifying the verb "cooked." It provides additional information about the intensity or extent of the cooking. This usage of modifiers is correct.

d) "Bridget decided to leave her career as an attorney and pursue acting during the meditation retreat."

In this sentence, there are no modifiers present. Instead, we have two verb phrases, "leave her career as an attorney" and "pursue acting," which provide additional information about Bridget's actions. While these verb phrases add details, they are not actual modifiers. Therefore, this sentence does not use modifiers.

Based on the analysis, the correct answer is:

a) "Kurt and his hockey teammates nearly cooked two hundred pancakes for the breakfast fundraising event."