CHAPTER 15 / ESSENTIAL GRAMMAR SKILLS 541
Concept Review 8: Other Misplaced Modifiers
Label each underlined phrase as a participial phrase (PART), a prepositional phrase (PREP), an appositive
(APP), or an infinitive phrase (INF). Although the SAT will NOT ask you to use these terms to label phrases, this
exercise will help you to spot modifier errors more easily.
- My friend the lawyertold me that I should never sign any contract without first reading it carefully.
- We should go to the meetingto see whether they need our helpwith the planning.
- Despite spraining her ankle, our first mate was able to navigate our schooner into port.
- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedi-
cated, can long endure. - We have come to dedicate a portionof that fieldas a final resting place for those who here gave their livesthat
that nation might live. - It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated hereto the unfinished workwhich they who fought here have thus
far so nobly advanced. - It is rather for usto be herededicated to the great taskremaining before us—that from these honored deadwe
take increased devotion to that causefor whichthey gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. - We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for
the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our pos-
terity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.