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    Modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that provide description in sentences. They allow writers to take the picture that they have in their heads and transfer it to the heads of their readers. Without modifiers, sentences would be no fun to read. Carefully chosen, well-placed modifiers allow you to depict situations with as much accuracy as words will allow.

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    Modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that provide description in sentences. They allow writers to take the picture that they have in their heads and transfer it to the heads of their readers. Without modifiers, sentences would be no fun to read. Carefully chosen, well-placed modifiers allow you to depict situations with as much accuracy as words will allow.

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    The Modifier

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    Modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that provide description in sentences. They allow writers to take the picture that they have in their heads and transfer it to the heads of their readers. Without modifiers, sentences would be no fun to read. Carefully chosen, well-placed modifiers allow you to depict situations with as much accuracy as words will allow.

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    The Modifier Recognize a modifier when you see one.

    Modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that provide description in sentences. Modifiers allow writers to take the picture that they have in their heads and transfer it accurately to the heads of their readers. Essentially, modifiers breathe life into sentences. Take a look at this "dead" sentence: Stephen dropped his fork. Now read what several well placed modifiers can do: Poor Stephen, who just wanted a quick meal to get through his three-hour biology lab, quickly dropped his fork on the cafeteria tray, gagging with disgust as a tarantula wiggled out of his cheese omelet, a sight requiring a year of therapy before Stephen could eat eggs again. Modifiers can be adjectives, adjective clauses, adverbs, adverb clauses, absolute phrases, infinitive phrases, participle phrases, and prepositional phrases. The sentence above contains at least one example of each: Adjective = poor. Adjective clause = who just wanted a quick meal. Adverb = quickly. Adverb clause = as a tarantula wiggled out of his cheese omelet. Absolute phrase = a sight requiring a year of therapy before Stephen could eat eggs again. Infinitive phrase = to get through his three-hour biology lab. Participle phrase = gagging with disgust. Prepositional phrase = on the cafeteria tray. Without modifiers, sentences would be no fun to read. Carefully chosen, well-placed modifiers allow you to depict situations with as much accuracy as words will allow. Grammatical modifier From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search

    In grammar, a modifier is an optional element in phrase structure or clause structure;[1] the removal of the modifier typically doesn't affect the grammaticality of the sentence. In English, adverbs and adjectives prototypically function as modifiers, but they also have other functions. Moreover, other parts of speech (or even entire phrases or clauses) can function as modifiers, as the following examples show : [Put it gently in the drawer]. (adverb in verb phrase) She set it down [very gently]. (adverb in adverb phrase) He was [very gentle]. (adverb in adjective phrase) [Even more] people were there. (adverb in determiner phrase) It ran [right up the tree]. (adverb in prepositional phrase) It was [a nice house]. (adjective in noun phrase) His desk was in [the faculty office]. (noun in noun phrase) [The swiftly flowing waters] carried it away. (verb phrase in noun phrase) I saw [the man whom we met yesterday]. (clause in noun phrase) She's [the woman with the hat]. (preposition phrase in noun phrase) It's not [that important]. (determiner in adjective phrase) [A few more] workers are needed. (determiner in determiner phrase) We've already [gone twelve miles]. (noun phrase in verb phrase) She's [two inches taller than I]. (noun phrase in verb adjective phrase)

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    A premodifier is a modifier placed before the head (the modified component). A postmodifier is a modifier placed after the head, for example:

    y y y

    land mines (pre-modifier) mines in wartime (post-modifier) time immemorial (post-modifier)

    A few adjectives, borrowed from French, may be postmodifiers, generally with a change in meaning from their premodifier use. An example is proper: They live in a proper town (in a real town) They live in the proper town (in the town that's right for them) They live in the town proper (in the town itself)

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