PPt on dangling modifiers

1. Pardon me, but your
modifier is dangling!

2. Having killed a man and served
four years in prison, I feel Tom
Joad is ripe to get into trouble.

3. Yoko Ono will
talk about her
husband, John
Lennon, who was
killed in an
interview with
Barbara Walters.

4. After years of being lost
under a pile of dusty books,
Charles found the missing
treasure map.

5. Plunging 1,000 feet into the gorge,
we saw Yosemite Falls.

6. A calf was born to a farmer
with two heads.

7. Some sources say shortly
after his death Mao Tse
Tung had expressed a wish
that his body be cremated.

8. She died in
the home in
which she was
born at the
age of 88.

9. Reference Problems
Or, how I learned not to be
ambiguous with my pronouns.

10. When Lady Caruthers smashed the
traditional bottle of champagne
against the hull of the giant oil
tanker, she slipped down the
runway, gained speed, rocketed
into the water with a gigantic
spray, and continued unchecked
toward the island.

11. Guilt, vengeance, and
bitterness can be emotionally
destructive to you and your
children. You must get rid
of them.

12. The driver had a narrow
escape, as a broken board
penetrated his windshield
and just missed his head.
This had to be removed
before he could be released
from the vehicle.

13. “He’s the horse of a
lifetime,” said trainer Packy
Lawrence. He’ll retire after
today’s race and be shipped
to Kentucky, where he’ll
begin a career at stud.