Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Improve Your Writing Skills


This video will help you to use modifiers correctly. Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence. When modifiers aren’t linked clearly enough to the words they’re actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity. 

This is a lesson by journalist and editor Emma Bryce.

Click on "CC" for subtitles

 

Listening comprehension test about the video: click here  for a multiple choice exercise.

More about misplaced modifiers: click here

Discussion about modifiers : click here

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