Choose the correct sentence
A) The patient is a 13-year-old female weighing 100 pounds who has a sprained wrist.
B) The patient is a 13-year-old female with a sprained wrist weighing 100 pounds.
I answered A
Do the pounds have a sprained wrist??
Or does the female have the sprained wrist?
Watch out for misplaced modifiers!
Got it so it should be B Thanks:)
B is also weird. Is it the wrist that weighs 100 pounds?? :-/
Oops! I didn't catch that.
The question is flawed.
It's definitely a bad question!!
This would be better.
The patient, a 13-year-old female weighing 100 pounds, has a sprained wrist.
That is incorrect. The correct sentence is B) "The patient is a 13-year-old female with a sprained wrist weighing 100 pounds."
To determine the correct answer, we need to understand the rules of adjective order in English. When multiple adjectives are used to describe a noun, there is a specific order in which they typically appear:
1. Opinion or observation (e.g., beautiful, angry)
2. Size (e.g., small, large)
3. Age (e.g., young, old)
4. Shape (e.g., round, square)
5. Color (e.g., blue, red)
6. Origin (e.g., American, French)
7. Material (e.g., wooden, steel)
8. Purpose or qualifier (e.g., walking, swimming)
In the sentence, "13-year-old" describes age, so it comes before "female." "Sprained" describes the condition of the wrist, so it is placed before "wrist." "Weighing 100 pounds" tells us the weight of the patient, so it comes after the other descriptions. Therefore, option B is the correct sentence.