Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
L.7.1c
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
L.7.1.c
Place phrases and clauses within a sentence and recognize/correct misplaced and dangling modifiers
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
L.7.5.a
phrases and clauses;
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.7.F
Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar,usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
E07.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.
E07.D.1.1.2 - Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
E07.D.1.1.3 - Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
E07.D.1.1.4 -Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
E07.D.1.1.5 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
E07.D.1.1.6 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
E07.D.1.1.7 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
E07.D.1.1.8 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
E07.D.1.1.9 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
E07.D.1.2.1 - Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green shirt).
E07.D.1.2.2 - Spell correctly.
E07.D.1.2.3 - Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, and dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
E07.D.1.2.4 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.7.L
Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar,usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
E07.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.
E07.D.1.1.2 - Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
E07.D.1.1.3 - Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
E07.D.1.1.4 -Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
E07.D.1.1.5 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
E07.D.1.1.6 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
E07.D.1.1.7 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
E07.D.1.1.8 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
E07.D.1.1.9 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
E07.D.1.2.1 - Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green shirt).
E07.D.1.2.2 - Spell correctly.
E07.D.1.2.3 - Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, and dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
E07.D.1.2.4 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.7.R
Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar,usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
E07.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.
E07.D.1.1.2 - Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
E07.D.1.1.3 - Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
E07.D.1.1.4 -Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
E07.D.1.1.5 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
E07.D.1.1.6 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
E07.D.1.1.7 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
E07.D.1.1.8 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
E07.D.1.1.9 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
E07.D.1.2.1 - Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green shirt).
E07.D.1.2.2 - Spell correctly.
E07.D.1.2.3 - Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, and dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
E07.D.1.2.4 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.7.C.3.1
Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.
7th Grade Writing - Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Lesson
Misplaced Modifier
A misplaced modifier is a modifier that is incorrectly separated from the word or words that it describes. The modifier should be placed as close as possible to the word or words it describes.
Example:
The young girl was walking a dog in a purple sweater.
Corrected Sentence:
The young girl in a purple sweater was walking a dog.
Dangling Modifier
A modifier that starts a sentence must be followed right away by the word it describes. Otherwise, the modifier is dangling and gives the sentence a meaning that was not intended.
Example:
Running in the morning without breakfast, weakness was felt.
Corrected Sentence:
Running in the morning without breakfast, I felt weakness.
7th Grade Writing - Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Lesson