Oh Dear I Seem to Have Misplaced My Modifier!

Oh Dear I Seem to Have Misplaced My Modifier!

  • Submitted By: miastacy
  • Date Submitted: 12/09/2008 7:00 PM
  • Category: English
  • Words: 269
  • Page: 2
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(1)Coming home, I drove to the wrong house and collided with a tree.
(2)A car suddenly collided with mine.
(3)As I was coming the other way, I collided with a stationary truck.
(4)A truck backed up and broke my windshield, striking my wife’s face.
(5)A pedestrian I ran over rolled under my car.
(6)The man kept moving back and forth across the road. I swerved a number of times before I eventually hit him.
(7)After forty years of driving experience, I had an accident while sleeping at the wheel.
(8)As I was legally parking my car, I backed up into another vehicle.
(9)In slow motion, I saw the sad faced old gentleman bounce off my car.
(10)A little man with a big mouth in a small car was the indirect cause of this accident.
(11)The pedestrian was unsure of what direction to go and I ended up running him over.
(12)I was sure the old fellow wasn’t going to make it to the other side of the road, but I ended up hitting him.
(13)I told the officer that I was not injured. But when I removed my hand from my head, I saw that I had a skull fracture.
(14)I crashed into a telephone pole in my attempt to kill a fly while driving.
(15)I was thrown from my car into a ditch and I was later found near some cows.
(16)I tried putting my head through my window that I thought was down, but was really up.

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