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Master Your Modifiers: Grammar Rules and Examples

Learn how to effectively use modifiers in sentences with clear examples and rules. Improve your writing by mastering sentence variation and avoiding redundancy. Enhance your comma usage for better clarity in your writing.

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Master Your Modifiers: Grammar Rules and Examples

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  1. Grammar for Life Rules and Examples

  2. Master Your Modifiers • Definition: A modifier is a word or group of words that modifies, or describes, another word or group of words in a sentence. A modifier should always appear next to the word or words it modifies. • Incorrect Example: Smothered in gravy, Derek ate his turkey. • Correct Example: • Option 1: Derek ate his turkey, which was smothered in gravy. • Option 2: Derek ate his smothered in gravy turkey.

  3. Vary Your Sentences • Concept: Varying Sentences - Varying sentences spices up your writing and keeps things interesting without ever boring your reader. To do so, follow the instructions below. • Rule: To vary a sentence, put an adverb in the beginning of the sentence, rather than anywhere else. • Example of Incorrect Usage: I tiptoed quietly down the stairs to quench my thirst at three in the morning. • Example of Correct Usage: Quietly, I tiptoed down the stairs to quench my thirst at three in the morning.

  4. Concept: Vary Your Sentences Rule: Move a prepositional phrase to the beginning of a sentence so the sentence does not sound awkward. Incorrect: Sally takes a ballet class at the end of each week. Correct: At the end of each week, Sally takes a ballet class.

  5. Vary Your Sentences You can form a compound sentence by linking two regular sentences together. You can use the following words to join sentences: FANBOY – for, and, nor, but, or, your -also, however, although, therefore, and. Ex: Incorrect: My brownie was delicious, I ate it all. Correct: My brownie was delicious, therefore, I ate it all.

  6. Vary Your Sentences- Rule # 4 • Rule # 4: Combine two or more sentences by placing the clause in the middle of one of the sentences: Incorrect Example: Jasmine loves to eat chicken. She is fat and lazy. Correct Example: Jasmine, my fat lazy cat, loves to eat chicken. By: Emily Del Villar and Charlotte Atkinson

  7. Redundancy • Rule: Do not use unnecasary repitition in your writing to keep it clear and effective. • Definition: The use of words or data that could be omitted without loss of meaning or function; repetition or overlapping, especially of words. • Incorrect: We have to go to soccer at 2:55 P.M., after school, after our classes are over. • Correct: We have to go to soccer at 2:55 P.M., after school.

  8. Use a pair of commas in the middle of a sentence to set off words or phrases that are not essential elements to the sentence. Incorrect: Suzy my friend went to the mall to buy a new outfit for the first day of school. Correct: Suzy,my friend, went to the mall to buy a new outfit for the first day of school. Comma Sense

  9. Comma Sense Rule: Use commas to separate items in a series of three or more things. Incorrect: When I make an ice cream Sunday I make sure to put on sprinkles cherry’s chocolate syrup and whip cream. Correct: When I make an ice cream Sunday I make sure to put on, sprinkles, cherry’s ,chocolate syrup, and whip cream.

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