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Eliminate Modifier Problems 去除修飾語所造成的問題. As a word, phrase, or clause, a modifier describes another word, phrase, or clause. The reader becomes confused

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Page 1: Eliminate Modifier Problems 去除修飾語所造成的問題.  As a word, phrase, or clause, a modifier describes another word, phrase, or clause. The reader becomes confused

Eliminate Modifier Problems去除修飾語所造成的問題

Page 2: Eliminate Modifier Problems 去除修飾語所造成的問題.  As a word, phrase, or clause, a modifier describes another word, phrase, or clause. The reader becomes confused

As a word, phrase, or clause, a modifier describes another word, phrase, or clause. The reader becomes confused when the modifying clause or phrase is not next to the word it modifies.

Page 3: Eliminate Modifier Problems 去除修飾語所造成的問題.  As a word, phrase, or clause, a modifier describes another word, phrase, or clause. The reader becomes confused

(Original) To effectively implement the policy, concrete measures must be adopt by the board of directors.◦Logically, concrete measures can not effectively implement the

policy.◦Therefore placing the modifying clause next to what it

modifies by switching from passive to active voice makes the intended meaning clear.

Page 4: Eliminate Modifier Problems 去除修飾語所造成的問題.  As a word, phrase, or clause, a modifier describes another word, phrase, or clause. The reader becomes confused

(Revised1) To effectively implement the policy, the board of directors must adopt concrete measures.

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Placing the subject towards the front of the sentence makes the intended meaning even more direct.

(Revised2) The board of directors must adopt concrete measures to effectively implement the policy.

Page 6: Eliminate Modifier Problems 去除修飾語所造成的問題.  As a word, phrase, or clause, a modifier describes another word, phrase, or clause. The reader becomes confused

(Original) As an elementary student, my teacher taught me how to write Chinese characters. ◦ Similar to the above example, As an elementary student

mistakenly implies the subject of the sentence my teacher. (Revised) My elementary teacher taught me how to

write Chinese characters.

Page 7: Eliminate Modifier Problems 去除修飾語所造成的問題.  As a word, phrase, or clause, a modifier describes another word, phrase, or clause. The reader becomes confused

(Original) Being a complex formula, the statistician derived the equation with much precision.◦A dangling modifier lacks the proper word in a sentence to

modify, thereby making the sentence illogical.

Page 8: Eliminate Modifier Problems 去除修飾語所造成的問題.  As a word, phrase, or clause, a modifier describes another word, phrase, or clause. The reader becomes confused

(Revised) Because the equation was a complex formula, the statistician derived it with much precision.