Answer:
The orange tabby cat sat on the windowsill with the crooked tail.
Explanation:
Misplaced modifiers are phrases, words, or clauses which are <u>mistakenly separated</u> from the <u>nouns </u>they modify. They can be misplaced adjectives, misplaced phrases, or misplaced adverbs.
In the sentence ‘The orange tabby cat sat on the windowsill with the crooked tail’, <u>with the crooked tail</u> is a misplaced phrase. This phrases modifies cat, but it is used after windowsill.
Its correct version is: The orange tabby cat with the crooked tail sat on the windowsill.
B. The description of the windows as empty eyes with a ghostly look creates a dark mood.
The poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow personifies ‘the meeting-house windows’ as empty eyes with a ghostly look thus creating a dark mood in the following lines:
“And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare,
Gaze at him with a spectral glare,”
The poem is about the night before the day the war would begin. He describes the coming of the war and its consequences. He speaks about the night when Paul Revere went on to warn the people and get them ready with their guns for the war.
Answer: A) Baking in the oven, Kaleb thought the cake smelled great
Explanation: a misplaced modifier is is a word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from the word it modifies or describes. Because of this separation, it often leads to misundertanding or confusion. From the given options, the sentence that contains a misplaced modifier is the corresponding to option A, because the phrase "baking in the oven" is separated from "cake" which is the element that it is modifying. One way to correct the sentence would be: Kaleb thought the cake that was baking in the oven, smelled great.
