Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Misplaced modifiers

Nathan and I love misplaced modifiers. They are really funny, and we both get them a lot in our school. So we put a bunch of them together. And they make us laugh. :D



He told us about driving stock cars in english class.
You may have received a package from your uncle in the mail box.
Several students were punished after the rules had been broken by the teacher.
He killed a snake that was crossing the road with his rifle.
The reporters saw the the player kick a field goal from the press box.
I saw the newsboy throwing newspapers through my front window.
I read about the robot who went to Mars in a recent magazine.
The crook was arrested after the bank had been robbed by the police.
We waved to the man cutting the lawn from our window.
In the sink, I noticed the water was still running.
While riding to Gettysburg on a scrap of brown paper, Lincoln wrote a famous speech.
Today a man told us about his encounters with wild animals from a mission board.
The Swan swam in the lake, white and graceful.
A woman stood on the sidewalk in a red silk dress.
A man looked at several used cars with false teeth.
A cowboy was riding a beautiful stallion with a ten-gallon hat on his head.
The question baffled the students on the chalk board.
That man just became a father of a baby boy in the brown suit.
The boy went to see the dentist with a tooth ache.
Jesus told them three days later He would rise from the dead.
I ordered initialed stationery from the store scented with roses.
The choir sang hymn written by Johnson Oatman, Jr. in church today.
Walking over the sand dunes, the sea oats were scarce.
I told Mother that I would be late for dinner on the telephone.
The runners discussed how to beat their rivals in the locker room.
Caleb told us about the recent nuclear explosion in the physics lab.
She bought an old book written by Beatrice Potter in the used bookstore.
Tim found a picture of Grandpa as a boy in the dresser drawer.
I heard about the massive snowstorm on the radio.
They told us about the Revolutionary War in class on Wednesday.
Lying under the sod, he discovered an antique silver dollar.
The brownies came from Mrs. Spencer with the nuts on top.
I could see the post office looking through my study window.
I could envision the heather on the moors reading the gothic novel.
The lady was standing by the piano in a gray coat.
The librarian gave a book to the man that was over three hundred years old.
General Eisenhower could see the troops peering through his binoculars.
Crumpled up in the wastebasket, she found the receipt.
She watched the snow falling outside her window lying lazily on the couch.
Flopping at the end of his fishing line, Bill saw a large speckled trout.
Mr. Lippert bought a car from the dealer that cost over thirty-thousand dollars.

I will actually write a blog post soon!!!
-Katie

5 comments:

Carlson Chronicler said...

Sitting at my desk, these misplaced modifiers are funny on Wednesday!

emily said...

"He killed a snake that was crossing the road with his rifle."

Hahaha!

Katie said...

Aren't they awesome!!

Elizabeth said...

I once shot an elephant in my pajamas, how he got into my pajamas i'll never know.

Thats from dad, I was reading some of your misplaced modifiers to my family at dinner. Hilarious! =)

Elaina said...

Why bother with Grammar when it's so funny when it's done wrong?