Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers ACT Practice

My great-grandfather fancied himself quite an inventor on my mother's side of the family.

Assuming correct capitalization and punctuation, the underlined portion should be placed:

• NO CHANGE

• after fancied

• after himself

• after great-grandfather

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.1

CCSS.L.11-12.2

As a young man, the radio was a new invention.

• NO CHANGE

• The radio was a new invention as a young man.

• As a young man the radio was a new invention

• When he was a young man, the radio was a new invention.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.1

Great-grandfather Seth would talk over his ideas with cows doing his chores.

Assuming correct capitalization and punctuation, the underlined portion should be placed:

• NO CHANGE

• before Great-grandfather

• after ideas

• after over

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.1

CCSS.L.11-12.2

Pounding and hammering, the night was filled with loud sounds.

• NO CHANGE

• Pounded and hammered,

• He pounded and hammered,

• As he was pounding and hammering,

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Finally, covered with dirt and hay, the barn door opened to reveal a triumphant Seth.

Assuming correct capitalization and punctuation, the underlined portion should be placed:

• NO CHANGE

• after door

• after opened

• after Seth

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2

Gleaming through the dusty haze, he pointed to his new invention.

Assuming correct capitalization and punctuation, the underlined portion should be placed:

• at the end of the sentence

• after pointed

• after his

• after new

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.1

CCSS.L.11-12.2

Sir George Cayley invented the first successful glider, but he was not the first to fly it. After he designed several experimental models, Cayley's coachman was chosen to be the first glider pilot.

• NO CHANGE

• the coachman of Cayley was chosen by Cayley

• a coachman, a driver of a horse-drawn carriage, was picked

• Cayley chose his coachman

The coachman was persuaded to get into the glider at the top of the hill with soothing words.

Assuming correct capitalization and punctuation, the underlined portion should be placed:

• NO CHANGE

• after persuaded

• after top

• after glider

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.1

CCSS.L.11-12.2

Once inside the glider, Cayley gave the machine a hard shove.

• NO CHANGE

• Once he was inside the glider,

• Once the coachman was inside the glider,

• After Cayley got inside the glider,

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

Rolling down the hill at perhaps 25 miles per hour, Cayley watched the machine take off.

• NO CHANGE

• It rolled down the hill at perhaps 25 miles per hour, Cayley watched the machine take off.

• The plane rolled down the hill at perhaps 25 miles per hour Cayley watched the machine take off.

• Cayley watched the machine take off rolling down the hill at perhaps 25 miles per hour.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.1

CCSS.L.11-12.2

CCSS.W.11-12.4