Worksheet 12: Other Modifier Problems
558 MCGRAW-HILL’S SAT
Correct any modifier problems in the sentences below.
- The latest political commercials make their points stronger than previous ones.
- My shirt smelled quite foully after rugby practice.
- Recent technological advances have made it easier to extract minuscule chemical traces from geological samples.
- We never usually get to go to such elegant restaurants.
- Although both of my parents have pretty level heads, my father is the most patient.
- The third graders weren’t hardly interested in going to the museum after school.
- I could always sing in front of a crowd easier than I could give a speech.
- In many areas of the country, wind energy can be converted to electricity even more efficient than fossil energy.
- I felt surprisingly well after Saturday’s ten-mile run.
- The microscopic size of the fracture made it more impossible to detect, even with special instruments.
- The committee had never been so unanimous as they were on the most recent vote.
- These measures won’t barely address the state’s deficit.
- The teacher never told us about the test until the day before.
- We weren’t real sure that the plan would work.
- Students never usually bother to examine the veracity of the “facts” they are supposed to memorize in history
class. - Gena’s guess was the most correct of anyone’s in the class.