Modifiers Flashcards
Adjective must modify?
Nouns
Adverbs must modify?
Verbs, adverbs or adjectives
When reading sentences pay special attention to?
Prepositional phrases, Squinting modifiers, participle phrases
What is the possessive modification trap?
Possessive nouns cannot modify phrase
That versus Which
That must be used for restrictive modifiers, which must be used for non-restrictive modifiers
When relative clauses can modify their antecedents “remotely”?
- noun phrases
- when relative clauses are separated from subjects by main verbs that describe development or change
“Who” can refer to?
People only
“Whose” can refer to?
things or people
Is sentence “My favorite hero, eating breakfast, NTR waved at me” wrong? if so why?
Yes because appositives almost always appear beside what they modify
What do abstract appositives do?
They modify the entire idea in the sentence that precedes them
What is a participle?
a verb that ends in -ed/ing
if present participles or past participles appear at beginning or in the middle of a sentence, are they restrictive?
NO
Present participles appearing in the end of a sentence modify what?
the preceding clause and the subject of preceding clause as its actor
What you should remember about Present participles?
The meaning conveyed by a present participle phrase must fit with the rest of the sentence in which the phrase appears as the phrase indicates simultaneity
What is the exception for Present participles appearing in the end of a sentence?
the participle phrase starting with “including” does not take subject of the preceding clause as its actor and the phrase modifies actor-action pair that appears between subject and the phrase
