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Split Infinitives

First, read the website Writing Review page on Split Infinitives, and then work on the sentences below. Use the Track Changes software to do this work.

1. To tentatively be or to not be! What kind of question would that be?

2. As soon as I got home, I decided to quickly answer the phone so that I could be sure to not be there when he planned to belatedly arrive, but then I realized I wasn't going to ever stop loving him, so I decided to hurriedly pick up the phone and to trippingly answer it with a sweet "hello."

3. She told me in no uncertain terms, "Go to school. Do it now. To not do it would entail a detention."

4. The cat ran raggedly to quickly get to the door.

5. Hurry and eat! To always avoid eating is the same thing as to forever desire death!

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Dangling Modifiers

First, read the website Writing Review page on Dangling Modifiers, then work on the sentences below. Use the Track Changes software to do this work. Yippee!

1. In using the word "alarming," the reader can infer a sense of danger in the scene.

2. In choosing to begin the essay with logos instead of pathos , the rational scope of the argument can be gleaned.

3. In the use of a simple and even staccato syntax, the reader can gather a sense of urgency.

4. In closing the poem with the seemingly unfinished line, and even the dash, the reader is left without a ready sense of what to think or feel.

5. In opening the novel with the image of the doorway, the reader senses incipient action.

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