The McGraw-Hill Workbook        Ex. 19-1       p. 313             Dangling Modifiers

Dangling Modifier or OK

Modifier

Word being described in the sentence
1. OK Smiling from the cover of Life magazine in July 1945 Audie Murphy
2. DP Looking as innocent as the boy next door Americans
3. OK Expecting war heroes to be battle scarred gladiators public
4. OK Born into a dirt poor family of Irish sharecroppers in Texas he
5. DP Impressed by the young man's photos Audie Murphy
6. DP Having been a hero in real life it
7. OK Calling himself a "fugitive from the law of averages" rather than a hero Audie Murphy
8. DP Though he recovered from his physical wounds stress
9. OK Essentially a farm boy with a fifth grade education he
10. DP Fearing fellow veterans would resent him for "cashing in" on his medals it
11. OK After playing bit parts and supporting roles Murphy
12. DP Acting alongside fellow veteran Bill Maudin Walter Huston
13. DP Paying himself in the film version of his autobiography To Hell and Back
14. OK Faithfully churning out Westerns Murphy
15. DP Unable to resolve his emotional problems a close friend
16. DP Troubled by the unpopular war in Vietnam image
17. OK Unable to repay a $13,000 loan millionaire
18. DP Desperate to recoup his finances reputation
19. DP When he died in a plane crash at forty-six journalists
20. OK Commenting on his friend's sad end Bill Maudlin

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