Answer:
In the book <em>Marriage Is A Private Affair</em> by Chinua Achebe, Nnaemeka is hesitant to tell his father about his engagement to Nene because he knows the issue is a sensitive one for him and he after he sends his father his wedding photo, his father cuts off Nene's face and sends it back to Nnaemeka. In his letter, his father voiced out his displeasure in a letter he sent his son when he said that the picture was unsolicited and he did not ask for it.
Nnaemeka's father was angry that Nnaemeka did not go according to the Igbo tradition of parent's picking a wife for him but went ahead to propose to Nene, an Ibibio girl so he was unhappy when he found out.
<u>Answer</u>:
The modifier in the sentence, “Tom ate the burger and fries as if he were in a race,” is “as if he were in a race.”
<u>Explanation</u>:
A modifier is a section of a phrase or a clause structure. In English grammar, the responsibility of a modifier is to modify or change another element in the structure of a sentence on which this optional element is dependent.
In this sentence above, “as if he were in a race” is the modifier which changes the other element of the sentence structure. Plus, the first part of the sentence if separated from the modifier forms an independent statement. So, “Tom ate the burger and fries,” is an independent sentence which is grammatically correct and is equal in structure to the original sentence.
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